Fuente Ovejuna (1612-1614), Lope de Vega Carpio

Productions in Spanish

Fuente Ovejuna (Adolfo Marsillach)

Details: Director: Adolfo Marsillach
Production company: Compañía de Teatro Clásico
Dates: from 19 January 1993 to 7 March 1993
Venue: Teatro de la Comedia
Location: Madrid, Spain
Critical response: Read the ABC review (in Spanish)

Fuenteovejuna (José Carlos Plaza)

Details

Director: José Carlos Plaza
Production company: Samarkanda Teatro
Dates: from 7 July 2008 to 8 July 2008
Venue: Teatro Municipal
Location: Almagro, Spain

Critical response

Darci Strother writes, 'This innovative and intelligent version of Fuenteovejuna weaves together the past and present, the literary and the historical, fiction and reality, in a way that both does justice to Lope's canonical play, and to the four hundred years audiences have had since then to debate and analyze it' (2009: 198).

Strother, Darci L. 2009. (Review of Plaza’s 2008 Almagro production) ‘Fuenteovejuna’, Comedia Performance, 6, 1, 198-208 [production in Spanish, review in English]

Crónica de Fuenteovejuna (Carlos Martínez Abarca, José Carlos Plaza)

Details

Director: Carlos Martínez Abarca , José Carlos Plaza
Production company: Samarkanda Teatro
Dates: 22 July 2008
Venue: Colegio de Fonseca
Location: Salamanca, Spain

Critical response

The production adapted the text, eliminating the political situation and focusing on the crimes committed by the Comendador (Sánchez). As Sánchez writes, 'Clearly influenced by an unprecedented wave of criticism against right-wing politicians after Franco's dictatorship and especially against the current Spanish royal family, they adapted the comedy and shaped it into a series of provocative debates that discuss, first, the outrageous abuses committed by the nobility and people in office throughout history, and, secondly, the impending obligation to deprive the Bourbons in Spain of their undeserved privileges and immunity' (2009: 211).

Sánchez, Jorge Abril. 2009. (Review of Plaza and Abarca’s 2008 production.) ‘Crónica de Fuenteovejuna’, Comedia Performance, 6, 1, 209-15 [production in Spanish, review in English]

Fuente Ovejuna (Laurence Boswell)

Details: Director: Laurence Boswell
Production company: Rakatá
Dates: from 2 June 2009 to 7 June 2009
Venue: Los Teatros del Canal
Location: Madrid, Spain
Critical response: The production also played 19-20 June 2009 at a Festival in Alcalá. See the theatre company's website

Productions in English

Fuente Ovejuna (Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl)

Details: Director: Joan Littlewood , Ewan MacColl
Based on translation:
Dates: 1936
Venue: Theatre Union
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Critical response: Revived as 'The Sheepwell', Theatre Workshop, 1955

Fuente Ovejuna (Victor Dixon)

Details: Director: Victor Dixon
Based on translation: Fuente Ovejuna (1989) by Victor Dixon
Production company: Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies
Dates: 1989
Venue: Atrium, Trinity College
Location: Dublin, Ireland

Fuente Ovejuna (Declan Donnellan)

Details: Director: Declan Donnellan
Based on translation: Fuente Ovejuna (1989) by Adrian Mitchell
Production company: National Theatre
Dates: 10 January 1989
Venue: Cottesloe Theatre
Location: London, United Kingdom

Fuente Ovejuna (Andrew Hay)

Details: Director: Andrew Hay
Based on translation:
Production company: Theatre Royal
Dates: 1992
Venue: Bristol Old Vic
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Fuente Ovejuna (Maria Bates)

Details: Director: Maria Bates
Based on translation: Fuente Ovejuna (1989) by Adrian Mitchell
Dates: from 1 March 2005 to 5 March 2005
Venue: South London Theatre
Location: London, United Kingdom

Fuenteovejuna (Eda Holmes)

Details: Director: Eda Holmes
Based on translation: Fuente Ovejuna (2003) by Richard Sanger
Dates: from 13 November 2006 to 25 November 2006
Venue: Ryerson Theatre
Location: Toronto, Canada

Fuente Ovejuna (Laurence Boswell)

Details: Director: Laurence Boswell
Based on translation: Fuente Ovejuna (2009) by Laurence Boswell
Production company: Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Dates: from 19 June 2008 to 4 October 2008
Location: Stratford, Ontario, Canada