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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Translation
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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Microtheater in Words Without Borders: A Genre for Uncertain Times
More than ten years after Words without Borders presented its first issue of theater in...
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London Theatre Company Brings Translators Centre-Stage
There are plenty of theatre translators who start out as actors, directors, playwrights or other...
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New US Theatre Translation Network Goes Online
A network of US-based theatre translators that has been developing over several years recently...
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A Contemporary Korean Play Meets A New York Audience
The article below is one I wrote for the E-Newsletter Hamilton Dramaturgy’s ScriptForward! back in...
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Musings on Supertitles
Thinking about how to make supertitles more friendly, more accessible to an audience that is...
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Theatre Review: “Poker Face” By Petr Kolečko–”Feels Like It’s Happening Right Here Right Now”
The play Poker Face by acclaimed Czech playwright Petr Kolečko–in Eva Daníčková’s translation and...
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Translating Theatre: ‘Foreignisation’ on Stage
TRANSLATING THEATRE: ‘FOREIGNISATION’ ON STAGE AN AHRC LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP PROJECT, MAY...
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The Problem of ‘Performability’ in Theatre Translation
In her article, “Performability versus Readability,” Greek-Canadian translator and translation...
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Lost Translations: What We Lose by Ignoring Plays That Aren’t in English
Bojana Janković calls out British theatre’s extreme reluctance to stage plays that...
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Does ‘Translating’ Shakespeare Into Modern English Dimish Its Greatness?
An uproar ensued after it was reported that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) – southern...
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Where are Women’s Voices in Translation?
Our correspondent Amelia Parenteau attended a “consciousness-raising” discussion of...
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Sasha Dugdale Recalls the Origins of New Drama in Russia
Back when I used to publish a blog called TheaterPlus on the website of The Moscow Times, I would...
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Ulrike Syha Interviews Dominique Dolmieu
Ulrike Syha: When was Eurodram, a network for drama in translation, founded? What was the initial...
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