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“Ballyturk” Delivers A Surreal Yet Exciting Challenge

Posted by Nobuko Tanaka | 19th Apr 2018 | Interview, Ireland, Japan, Translation

When Akira Shirai first read the script for Ballyturk, he quickly understood why its creator,...

Thou Art Translated! How Shakespeare Went Viral

Posted by Alexa Alice Joubin | 18th Apr 2018 | Adaptation, Essay, Translation, Worldwide

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when Peter Quince sees Bottom turned into an ass-headed figure, he...

The Greatest Play Ever Written: Translating “The Cherry Orchard”

Posted by Rory Mullarkey | 31st Mar 2018 | Essay, London, Russian Theatre Abroad, Translation, United Kingdom

Rory Mullarkey introduces his new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece for Bristol Old Vic. “The...

A Place To Be Seen: Global Queer Plays At The Arcola Theatre

Posted by William Gregory | 24th Mar 2018 | Festivals, LGBTQ Theatre, London, News, Producing, Translation, United Kingdom

On March 3 and 4 2018, the Arcola Theatre in East London presented Global Queer Plays, a series of...

“Lessons Learnt” By A Professional Translator–Adapting The Same Play Three Times Over Three Years

Posted by Noah Birksted-Breen | 23rd Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Russia, Translation, United Kingdom

I have just finished translating Mikhail Durnenkov’s The War Hasn’t Yet Started for the third time...

American Actors Give New Voice To French Theater

Posted by French Culture | 22nd Mar 2018 | Adaptation, France, News, Theatre and Art, Translation

As a young French director visiting New York with his theater troupe, Paul Desveaux hardly...

“Y Tad” – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (A Welsh Translation of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”)

Posted by Christopher Harris | 10th Mar 2018 | Adaptation, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom

Terry Eagleton reminds us that in order for tragedy to occur, then the protagonist must be in...

“Pollock” A Play By Fabrice Melquiot: Conversation with French Director Paul Desveaux

Posted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 20th Feb 2018 | France, Interview, Theatre and Art, Translation

A production from Compagnie L’Héliotrope, and co-presented by the Cultural Services of the...

“I Feel As If I’m Loosing My Leaves:” Translatability Of Theme Through Language In Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru’s Production Of Florian Zeller’s “Y Tad”

Posted by Christopher Harris | 15th Feb 2018 | Adaptation, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom

The universality of Florian Zeller’s undiminished modern masterpiece The Father has ceased...

On Words In Motion: “Brodsky/Baryshnikov”

Posted by Yana Meerzon | 7th Feb 2018 | Canada, Review, Theatre and Dance, Translation

In scholarly debates on contemporary theatre, the question about language has primary importance....

A Theoretical Polarization Between Performability Versus Readability Or Towards “The Metaphysics Of A (Play) Text?”

Posted by Ekaterini Nikolarea | 2nd Feb 2018 | Essay, Translation

In this essay, I want to discuss the interface the Semiotics of Theater and Theater Translation as...

From Skopje To London Via Hungarian And English: András Visky’s “The Unburied”

Posted by Jozefina Komporaly | 20th Jan 2018 | Essay, Hungary, London, Romania, Translation, United Kingdom

In November 2017, a world premiere by one of the Hungarian language’s leading playwrights...

‘Les Incorrigibles’: The Publishing House Championing Spanish Theatre in France

Posted by William Gregory | 16th Jan 2018 | France, News, Playwriting, Spain, Translation

Despite Spain being a near neighbor, Spanish theatre has enjoyed relatively little exposure in...

A View From The Bridge: The Dramaturg’s Work on A Play in Translation

Posted by Katalin Trencsényi | 24th Dec 2017 | Essay, Translation, United Kingdom

When talking about translation, statistics show an alarming picture. The United Kingdom has the...

Intercultural Theatre Practices – Interview With Frances Barbe

Posted by Valentina Riccardi | 21st Dec 2017 | Australia, Interview, Theatre and Dance, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation

Interview conducted as part of the media partnership between Culture360 and International Theatre...

“Goats” by Syrian Playwright Liwaa Yazjiat at The Royal Court

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Dec 2017 | Review, Syria, Translation, United Kingdom

The civil war in Syria spawns image after image of hell on earth. Staging the stories of that...

An Interview With Noah Birksted-Breen: Falling In Love With New Russian Plays

Posted by Jessica Hinds-Bond | 2nd Dec 2017 | Interview, Producing, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Translation

Noah Birksted-Breen is the artistic director of London’s Sputnik Theatre Company, which he...

Natalya Vorozhbit’s “Bad Roads” At The Royal Court: Russian And Ukrainian Drama In The UK

Posted by James Rowson | 25th Nov 2017 | Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom

This November, the Royal Court Theatre in London stages the global premiere of Ukrainian playwright Natalia Vorozhbit’s play Bad Roads in an English language translation by Sasha Dugdale. Vorozhbit is one of the most exciting...

Eurydice Among the Shades – Elfriede Jelinek’s “Shadow. Eurydice Says” in NYC

Posted by Donald Brown | 28th Oct 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Translation, United States of America

Elfriede Jelinek’s Shadow. Eurydice Says is not much of a drama, if by that is meant a...

Amsterdam’s Symposium On Cultural Translation

Posted by Christopher Harris | 21st Oct 2017 | Dramaturgy, Netherlands, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum asserted itself as the watering hole for a universal collective of people congregating on the subject of cultural translation within a dramaturgical framework, which alone begins as a intriguing idea, given that the collective arrived out of the rain from many corners of the globe.