Lycoming professor presents translation of contemporary Spanish play performed by theatre students
On April 27, Lycoming’s Modern Language Studies Department Chair and Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor Sandra Kingery, Ph.D., presented her translation of “The Treatment,” a play by Spanish writer Pablo Remón. The Lycoming theatre department presented a selection from the first act of the play virtually as a staged reading performed by Lycoming students and directed by C. Austin Hill, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of theatre.
The translation of Remón’s “El Tratamiento” was inspired after an evening at the theater while Kingery was visiting Madrid. “I loved the play so much that I wrote the playwright the next morning to ask him if I could translate it,” she said. He wrote back immediately giving her the rights, and the project began.