Supertitles Galore At The 2017 Avignon Festival: Necessary Or Not?
I’ve recently returned from the Avignon Festival where I’m sure I saw more shows with supertitles...
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Translation
“The Maids”: A New Stage of Power and Performance
The Taiwan-based theatre troupe, Yang’s Ensemble, used to deal mostly with Sino-centric cultures...
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“Buried Child” in Hong Kong: Disparate Americana
American Travis Preston directed this production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child for the Hong Kong...
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Theatre Translation Forum launches ‘Adapting Translation for the Stage’
In 2013-14, an innovative, cross-disciplinary research project explored the interactions of...
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Out of the Wings Brings Hispanic and Lusophone Theatre to London Audiences
Following its second annual week of play readings from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world,...
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Bakkhai at the Stratford Festival: A Translation in the Clear Key of Green
“Beginnings have their own energy, ethics, tonality, colour.” –excerpt from Anne Carson’s...
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Review: Xameleon Theatre–Chekhov’s Vision Of “Love In A Nutshell”
Xameleon Theatre treats London audiences to a new insight into the life and works of Chekhov in...
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Interview with the Playwright, Director, and Translator of “Sister Mok-Rahn”: How an Authentically Korean Story Crosses Over to New York
Eunsung Kim is a South Korean playwright and the Director of Dalnara Dongbakkot Company. He was...
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Pondering Over the Division between North and South Korea, Kim Eunsung’s “Sister Mok-Rahn” Greets New York
On Sunday, May 7, Korean playwright Kim Eunsung’s Sister Mok-Rahn was given a staged reading at...
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Interview: Ha Sung-kwang as Cheng Ying in “The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge”
The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge was staged again recently. The premiere production was an...
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Shakespeare and the Hindi Theatre
Hamara Shakespeare: Shakespeare and the Hindi Theatre in India Shakespeare has been performed in...
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Bilingual Conversations at the Cervantes Theatre: An Interview With Paula Paz
Interview with Paula Paz, Associate Director of the Cervantes Theatre, the new theatre with hopes of becoming a house of Spanish and Latin American theatre and culture in London.
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Roland Schimmelpfennig’s “Winter Solstice” Probes the Lure of Fascism
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an...
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Theatre Review: Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” At The Union Theatre
Simplified Production Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt. Tracy Letts’ adaptation of Chekhov’s 1900...
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The Need for Supertitles or Not
Two shows recently seen at the Under The Radar festival in New York gave me the opportunity to...
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“NIMBY” From Chilean-French Company Colectivo Zoológico at Iberoamerikanisches Theaterfestival
On July 4th, 1999, almost 1700 low-income families in Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile illegally...
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Sending the Spectator Abroad: Some Reflections on Theatre Translation
How does the work of translation affect how we read, understand and spectate? How do translations...
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Translated Theatre in Brexit Britain
As the London Eye fireworks die down and 2016 segues bleary-eyed in to 2017, one of the most...
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More Musings On Supertitles
“Knowing two languages doesn’t make you a translator any more than having ten fingers makes you a...
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EURODRAM Full Open Call 2016-17
Next week marks the deadline for the annual call for scripts from EURODRAM.
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