Out of the Wings [http://www.outofthewings.org] is a three-year AHRC collaboration between King's College London, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Oxford which aims to make the riches of the theatres of Spain and Spanish America accessible to English-speaking researchers and theatre professionals.

The virtual environment we have developed contains details of plays written in Spanish in different periods and countries, as well as information about their authors, sample translations into English, synopses, performance histories and many other tools for interpreting the featured drama.

The Out of the Wings resource offers bodies of knowledge that inform the history, traditions and practice of theatre in Hispanic cultures.

Users can search through a comprehensive database of Spanish-language plays (either generically under Golden Age, Modern Spanish and Spanish American or by key words – genre, type of play, number of characters, theme, etc.) to find the play or plays that are relevant to their own programming or research needs.

The entries of individual plays are contextualised through synopsis, sample translation, production notes, critical responses and performance history, and a final section guides users towards a directory of theatre translators.