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The AHCT Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
April 12–14, 2018, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso, TX
Submission deadline: September 1, 2017.
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater invites submissions for its
2018 Symposium. The conference dates coincide with the world’s
longest-running Spanish Golden Age theater festival, the Siglo de Oro Drama
Festival at the Chamizal National Memorial, April 11–14, 2018. The
Association encourages studies on performance aspects of Siglo de Oro
plays, though proposals for papers or special sessions on other topics
related to Spanish Golden Age theater are welcome. For further details and
to submit an abstract, visit the conference webpage at
http://www.wordpress.comedias.org/2018-el-paso/ and click the link for the
“Abstract Submission Form.”

Dakin Matthews: Donald T. Dietz Plenary Speaker, 2018 AHCT Symposium,
Saturday, April 14, 2018. Dakin Matthews has served as Artistic Director of
Andak Stage Company, California Actors Theatre, the Berkeley Shakespeare
Festival, and the Antaeus Company, and is an Emeritus Professor of English
from California State University, East Bay. An award-winning Shakespearean
actor, he is a member of both the Motion Picture and Television Academies,
and has appeared in over twenty-five films and two hundred fifty television
shows. In recent years, he has acted in numerous Broadway productions.
Matthews is also a director, playwright, dramaturge, teacher, and
translator. He has completed verse translations of Moreto’s Spite for
Spite, Tirso’s Don Juan, the Trickster of Seville, Ruiz de Alarcón’s The
Truth Can’t Be Trusted, The Proof of the Promise, and The Walls Have Ears,
and Lope de Vega’s The Capulets and the Montagues. Four of his comedia
translations have had professional, award-winning productions. He is
currently translating Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra (1627) into
English. In his plenary address at the 2018 AHCT Symposium, he will discuss
his most recent work and share his insight and experience as a translator
and actor of the Spanish comedia.
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