Within hopes its updated translation of a Spanish classic will speak to a new generation of viewers. Calderon's 1636 classic has been translated or adapted into English often over the centuries, and several times in the last decade. Cavander dodged the whole subject of hippogriffs.
Nothing is wasted.
Cavander was born in Prague of a Scottish mother and educated at Oxford, but he is married to an American citizen and has lived in the U.S. for 30 years. All the reference points and the language are so much closer in time and rhythm. Calderon is often like Shakespeare in the way scenes are constructed and the way he uses metaphor. Within's artistic directors has a personal interest in exploring Spanish drama. Her parents had emigrated from Cuba to Florida in 1959, but her mother went back to the island in 1960 so that Julia could be born there.