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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...

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.

An Inconvenient Truth – Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” at Yale Rep

Posted by Donald Brown | 20th Oct 2017 | Review, Translation, United States of America

Thanks to Trump’s designation of the press as “the enemy of the people,” the question of what...

My Translation Odyssey: Translating Alexandra Badea’s “The Pulverised”

Posted by William Gregory | 5th Oct 2017 | France, Romania, Translation, United Kingdom

Currently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Lucy Phelps is an actor and translator...

Where And How To Find Foreigner-Friendly Performances In Moscow’s Theaters

Posted by Nikolay Shevchenko | 25th Sep 2017 | News, Russia, Translation

Moscow is an excellent venue for devoted drama connoisseurs, even if you don’t speak Russian. Here...

Supertitles Galore At The 2017 Avignon Festival: Necessary Or Not?

Posted by Philippa Wehle | 23rd Sep 2017 | Festivals, France, Translation

I’ve recently returned from the Avignon Festival where I’m sure I saw more shows with supertitles...

“The Maids”: A New Stage of Power and Performance

Posted by Cheng-Han Wu | 1st Sep 2017 | Taiwan, Translation

The Taiwan-based theatre troupe, Yang’s Ensemble, used to deal mostly with Sino-centric cultures...

“Buried Child” in Hong Kong: Disparate Americana

Posted by Whit Emerson | 9th Aug 2017 | Hong Kong, Translation, United States of America

American Travis Preston directed this production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child for the Hong Kong...

Theatre Translation Forum launches ‘Adapting Translation for the Stage’

Posted by Emma Cole | 25th Jul 2017 | Adaptation, London, News, Translation, United Kingdom

In 2013-14, an innovative, cross-disciplinary research project explored the interactions of...

Out of the Wings Brings Hispanic and Lusophone Theatre to London Audiences

Posted by Catherine Boyle | 16th Jul 2017 | Producing, South America, Spain, Translation, United Kingdom

Following its second annual week of play readings from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world,...

Bakkhai at the Stratford Festival: A Translation in the Clear Key of Green

Posted by Megan De Roover | 14th Jul 2017 | Canada, North America, Translation

“Beginnings have their own energy, ethics, tonality, colour.” –excerpt from Anne Carson’s...

Review: Xameleon Theatre–Chekhov’s Vision Of “Love In A Nutshell”

Posted by Margaret Drummond | 1st Jul 2017 | Adaptation, London, Playwriting, Review, Russia, Russian Theatre Abroad, Translation, United Kingdom

Xameleon Theatre treats London audiences to a new insight into the life and works of Chekhov in...

Interview with the Playwright, Director, and Translator of “Sister Mok-Rahn”: How an Authentically Korean Story Crosses Over to New York

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 24th Jun 2017 | Interview, South Korea, Translation

Eunsung Kim is a South Korean playwright and the Director of Dalnara Dongbakkot Company. He was...

Pondering Over the Division between North and South Korea, Kim Eunsung’s “Sister Mok-Rahn” Greets New York

Posted by Walter Byongsok Chon | 16th Jun 2017 | Dramaturgy, South Korea, Translation

On Sunday, May 7, Korean playwright Kim Eunsung’s Sister Mok-Rahn was given a staged reading at...

Interview: Ha Sung-kwang as Cheng Ying in “The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge”

Posted by Kim Soyeon | 8th Jun 2017 | Acting, Adaptation, Interview, South Korea, Translation

The Orphan of Zhao: Seeds of Revenge was staged again recently. The premiere production was an...

Shakespeare and the Hindi Theatre

Posted by Vikram Singh Thakur | 8th May 2017 | India, Translation

Hamara Shakespeare: Shakespeare and the Hindi Theatre in India Shakespeare has been performed in...

Bilingual Conversations at the Cervantes Theatre: An Interview With Paula Paz

Posted by Aida Rocci | 16th Mar 2017 | Interview, London, Spain, Transcultural Collaborations, Translation, United Kingdom

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.