Editorial

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Notes

1. The last official survey, carried out in 2003 by the Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, showed that 2,670100 (48.8% of the total population of Catalonia) people considered Catalan to be their first language but only 50.1% of the population used Catalan as their language of communication. There are also considerable numbers of Catalan speakers outside Catalonia proper, including the Balearic Islands, the Valencian region, Andorra and parts of the South of France. The number is estimated at over 6 million. For more information on Catalonia's linguistic profile see www.idescat.net/cat/societat/soclleng.html

2. See Giles Tremlett, ‘Porn Actors do it for Catalan’, Guardian (9 March 2007) http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,2029921,00.html[accessed 23 April 2007].

3. It is worth remembering that Catalonia also had an earlier wave of mass immigration from other quarters of Spain, most especially Andalusia, Murcia and Galicia, see http://www.idescat.net/cat/poblacio/poblfluxos.html[accessed 25 May 2007].

4. For further details on this, see Maria M. Delgado, ‘Other’ Spanish Theatres: Erasure and Inscription on the Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), pp. 166–172, 182–184.

5. During the latter stages of preparing this issue of CTR, Ventura Pons filmed Lluïsa Cunillé's Barcelona, mapa d'ombres (Barcelona, Map of Shadows), a play discussed by Sharon Feldman and Helena Buffery in their articles in this issue of CTR, 370–384, 385–397.

6. For further details see the bibliography to this volume, available online at www.informaworld.com.

7. On Comediants, see http://www.comediants.com/[accessed 10 May 2007]; on Dagoll Dagom, see http://www.dagolldagom.com/index_flash.htm[accessed 10 May 2007]; on El Tricicle, see http://www.tricicle.com/[accessed 10 May 2007].

8. See, for example, Steve Dixon, ‘Metal Performance: Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About’, TDR: The Drama Review, 48:4 (T184) (Winter 2004), 15–46, and Paul Julian Smith, ‘Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca: Biology, Technology, Visuality’, in Antes y después del Quijote: Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda (Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana/Biblioteca Valenciana, 2005), pp. 393–397.

9. We would like to thank the many readers who refereed these articles and interviews. Richard Mansell's translation assistance was welcomed at a pressured time. Simon Breden worked with us on translating a number of the interviews and articles and acted as a diligent research assistant on the volume. The School of English and Drama's Research Committee at Queen Mary, University of London offered financial support at the early stages of developing the volume. We owe a debt of thanks to the photographers who shared their images with us and the companies and theatres whose archives we consulted, especially Anna Aurich of the Teatre Lliure, Jordi González at the TNC, Adela Rocha at the Liceu, Cristina Ferrández at Els Joglars, Elena Martínez at the Teatre Romea, Jaume Cuspinera at Els Films de la Rambla, Mercè Ros at the Mercat de les Flors, Alicia Torres Déniz at the Arxiu Històric (Barcelona), and all at the Companyia Carles Santos. David Bradby has proved an astute and generous reader at all stages of this volume's development and deserves our special thanks. The publication of this issue of CTR has been made possible by a grant from the Institut Ramon Llull.