ATIA Guest Blog: Translating For Theatre As Performative Translation: Interview With Dr. Stefano Muneroni
Translating a play for the stage may often be considered a form of literary translation, but it is...
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Elizaveta Boyarskaya: Acting And Directing Is More Than A Job—It Is A Mission
Following the premiere of Vassily Grossman’s Life And Fate at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on May...
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Keishi Nagatsuka Navigates Cultural Differences In Bringing Play About Capital Punishment To Japan
For casual fans of film, the name Martin McDonagh only became familiar after the movie he wrote,...
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Women Of The World Write: “Global Female Voices” At The Arcola Theatre
In April 2018, London’s Arcola Theatre staged Global Female Voices, an evening of play...
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The Importance Of “Hamlet”
The Bard’s tale on the machinations of Denmark’s royal family remains his most influential plays...
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Unpacking The Role Of Women In Ibsen’s “The Enemy Of The People”
Goodman’s Resident Dramaturg on how her work gives texture and specificity to a production....
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“Ballyturk” Delivers A Surreal Yet Exciting Challenge
When Akira Shirai first read the script for Ballyturk, he quickly understood why its creator,...
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Thou Art Translated! How Shakespeare Went Viral
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, when Peter Quince sees Bottom turned into an ass-headed figure, he...
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The Greatest Play Ever Written: Translating “The Cherry Orchard”
Rory Mullarkey introduces his new version of Chekhov’s masterpiece for Bristol Old Vic. “The...
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A Place To Be Seen: Global Queer Plays At The Arcola Theatre
On March 3 and 4 2018, the Arcola Theatre in East London presented Global Queer Plays, a series of...
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“Lessons Learnt” By A Professional Translator–Adapting The Same Play Three Times Over Three Years
I have just finished translating Mikhail Durnenkov’s The War Hasn’t Yet Started for the third time...
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American Actors Give New Voice To French Theater
As a young French director visiting New York with his theater troupe, Paul Desveaux hardly...
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“Y Tad” – Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru (A Welsh Translation of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”)
Terry Eagleton reminds us that in order for tragedy to occur, then the protagonist must be in...
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“Pollock” A Play By Fabrice Melquiot: Conversation with French Director Paul Desveaux
A production from Compagnie L’Héliotrope, and co-presented by the Cultural Services of the...
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“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”
The universality of Florian Zeller’s undiminished modern masterpiece The Father has ceased...
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On Words In Motion: “Brodsky/Baryshnikov”
In scholarly debates on contemporary theatre, the question about language has primary importance....
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A Theoretical Polarization Between Performability Versus Readability Or Towards “The Metaphysics Of A (Play) Text?”
In this essay, I want to discuss the interface the Semiotics of Theater and Theater Translation as...
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From Skopje To London Via Hungarian And English: András Visky’s “The Unburied”
In November 2017, a world premiere by one of the Hungarian language’s leading playwrights...
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‘Les Incorrigibles’: The Publishing House Championing Spanish Theatre in France
Despite Spain being a near neighbor, Spanish theatre has enjoyed relatively little exposure in...
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A View From The Bridge: The Dramaturg’s Work on A Play in Translation
When talking about translation, statistics show an alarming picture. The United Kingdom has the...
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