Hispanic Theatre Festival

There can’t be many better ways to mark Fiesta Nacional de España (National Day of Spain) than competing in the Hispanic Theatre Festival in London, and that is exactly what a group of Wellington College Spanish students did on Thursday 13 October.

The competition sees each school perform a ten-minute vignette of a Spanish play which can be an original production created by the participants or a piece by a wellknown playwright.

Congratulations to the entire team for performing La casa de los espíritus by Isabel Allende. A brilliant evening finished with Sofia L winning ‘Best Spoken Spanish Individual’.

In the students’ own words: “We found it very useful to speak Spanish outside the classroom in a playful environment. We enjoyed this journey so much that it has increased our passion for Spanish”.

Sofia L added, “The experience I had was transformative. I felt completely submerged in the Hispanic theatre and, who knows, maybe I shall be the next Antonio Banderas…”