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Milo Rau was to receive an honorary doctorate from the UGent in March. Corona decided differently,...
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Translation
Denying A Harsh Reality in “The History of Violence”
It opens with a manic attempt to clean. The sheets, the floors, the smell of the air, everything...
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Tue Biering’s “Land Without Dreams” at the Gate Theatre
What’s the use of thinking about the future? What’s the use of thinking about the future in a...
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Translating Trojan Horses
In 2019, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi was asked to translate Trojan Horse, a play by Lung Theatre based...
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Tribalism, Tragedy and Torment: Yaël Farber’s “Blood Wedding” at the Young Vic
Federico García Lorca’s rural trilogy, written in the period between 1932 and 1936 as social...
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Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 2
To read Part 1 of this interview, click here. TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION For the Illinois State...
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Entering “Yellow Inn”: A Conversation Between the Playwright and Translator, Part 1
Interview and translation by Kee-Yoon Nahm with contributions from Laura Gisondi. Lee Kang-baek is...
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Lorca, Lopez, and Translating Desire: “Yerma” at the Huntington Theater Company
Yerma, the titular character of Federico García Lorca’s play is terribly desperate. She...
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Translating Shakespeare
Translation of Shakespeare’s works is almost as old as Shakespeare himself; the first German...
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Co-Translating Hanoch Levin, The “Beckett of Israel”: A Conversation With Jessica Cohen & Evan Fallenberg
Although Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) is arguably Israel’s most important playwright, his work is...
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International Playwrights Showcased at Columbia University School of the Arts
In June 2019, Columbia University School of Arts staged the second annual International Play...
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“Hero Alom”: Shattering Frameworks of Beauty in Modern Indian Theatre
Writer-director, Mahesh Ruprao Ghodeswar’s Hero Alom pays homage to the mainstream cinema even...
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En-route To Constructing Translation For The Stage: The UCL Theatre Translation Futures Forum
In March 2019, translators, directors, performers and researchers gathered at University College...
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Henrik Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” At The Duke Of York’s Theatre: Vibrant Classic
Rosmersholm is considered a difficult and rarely performed play. But, judging from this...
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Theatre Centre-Stage At US Literary Translation Conference
In 2018, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) gave pride of place to theatre...
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Foibles Of Upper-Class Philanderers
The irreverent stage persona of Naseeruddin Shah, cocking a snook at societal mores and...
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A Room Of One’s Own: A Theatre Translator In Residence
In October 2018, Theatre Times translation editor William Gregory became the inaugural translator...
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The Re-Invention Of Subtitling. A New Technical Approach To The International Market
“Pour bien faire, il faudrait un film qui tournerait la traduction intégrale (de la pièce) à la...
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I Saw The Most Remarkable Production Of “Hamlet” I’ve Ever Seen And Did Not Understand A Word Of It
Hamlet And Us was developed by Laboratorul de Arta, a collective within Bucharest of dancers,...
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Brecht Comes Home To Santa Monica With City Garage’s “Arturo Ui”
There are plays that feel timeless because they strike familiar chords and speak to something at...
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