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This book explores the impact that high-profile and well-known
translators have on audience reception of translated theatre. Using
Relevance Theory as a framework, the book demonstrates how prior
knowledge of a celebrity translator's contextual background can
affect the spectator's cognitive state and influence their
interpretation of the play. Three canonical plays adapted for the
British stage are analysed: Mark Ravenhill's translation of Life of
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, Roger McGough's translation of Tartuffe
by Moliere and Simon Stephens' translation of A Doll's House by
Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on interviews, audience feedback, reviews,
blogs and social media posts, Stock examines the extent to which
audiences infer the celebrity translator's own voice from their
translations. In doing so, he adds new perspectives to the
long-standing debate on the visibility of the translator in both
the process of translating and the reception of the translation.
Celebrity Translation in British Theatre offers an original
approach to theatre translation that sheds light on the culture of
celebrity and its capacity to attract new audiences to plays in
translation.
The Uncapturable is a wide-ranging reflection on the art of the
mise en scene from the perspective of leading Argentinian theatre
director Ruben Szuchmacher. It offers a timely and concise, though
comprehensive, survey of the role and responsibility of the theatre
director from the earliest times to the twenty-first century.
Szuchmacher defines theatre as the confluence of four art forms -
architecture, visual art, sound and literature - whose works only
truly exist in the moment of encounter with an audience. He argues
that, by taking full account of these four art forms, analysing
them in detail and engaging thoughtfully with the many specialists
who come together to bring a mise en scene into being, the director
of today can still create work that innovates and inspires. The
Uncapturable is as valuable to the apprentice director emerging
from their training as it is to the veteran in need of fresh
reflection. Szuchmacher draws on the unique learnings gleaned from
working in Argentina, be it the impact on theatre of politics, the
need for inventiveness in times of hardship, the phenomenon of
Argentine 'circus theatre' or the adaptation of literary giants
such as Borges, affording the Anglophone reader an alternative
perspective on the ideas of theatre we often take for granted.
Szuchmacher offers a unique blend of global knowledge, historical
awareness and a pragmatic, resourceful and creative approach from a
theatre artist working in Latin American through decades of change.
The book is translated from the Spanish by William Gregory.
InkShard is a compendium of articles and social commentary, written
by author Eric Muss-Barnes, between 2004 and 2018. Revised and
expanded, this volume assembles various topics culled from posts on
social media websites to the scripts of video essays. Carefully
compiled from the finest of his journalistic work, InkShard
represents the definitive collection of Eric's most compelling
dissertations and beloved editorials.
Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively
connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and
engagement? This open access book examines the forms and functions
of political drama in what has been described as a post-Marxist,
post-ideological, even post-political moment. It argues that
Bertolt Brecht's concept of dialectical theatre represents a
privileged theoretical and dramaturgical method on the contemporary
British stage as well as a valuable lens for understanding
21st-century theatre in Britain. Establishing a creative
philosophical dialogue between Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W.
Adorno and Jacques Ranciere, the study analyses seminal works by
five influential contemporary playwrights, ranging from Mark
Ravenhill's 'in-yer-face' plays to Caryl Churchill's 21st century
theatrical experiments. Engaging critically with Brecht's
theatrical legacy, these plays create a politically progressive
form of drama which emphasises notions of negativity, ambivalence
and conflict as a prerequisite for spectatorial engagement and
emancipation. This book adopts an interdisciplinary and
intercultural theoretical approach, reuniting English and German
perspectives and innovatively weaving together a variety of
theoretical strands to offer fresh insights on Brecht's legacy, on
British theatre history and on the selected plays. The ebook
editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND
4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
This book examines the dynamics of the relational and spatial
politics of contemporary French theatrical production, with a focus
on four theatres in the Greater Paris region. It situates these
dynamics within the intersection of the histories of the public
theatre and theatre decentralization in France, and the dialogues
between live performances and the larger frameworks of artistic
direction and programming as well as various imaginations of the
"public". Understanding these phenomena, as well as the politics
that underscore them, is key to understanding not only the present
status of the public theatre in France, but also how theatre as a
publicly funded institution interacts with the notion of the
plurality, rather than the homogeneity, of its publics.
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Geisha
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No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story -- until now. "Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave." Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike. But even though she became one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, Iwasaki wanted more: her own life. And by the time she retired at age twenty-nine, Iwasaki was finally on her way toward a new beginning. Geisha, a Life is her story -- at times heartbreaking, always awe-inspiring, and totally true.
A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from top 10 bestseller Portia
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public, living the life of glamour and luxury in London. But when
scandal breaks, Emmy must escape the city and return to her seaside
hometown to lie low and wait for the storm to pass. And as tragedy
strikes for her family, it is good timing to go back to her roots.
Emmy's agent decides it would be a good look to star in the
community Christmas pantomime, but who else could be playing her
leading man but her ex-boyfriend who she may or may not have
ditched to move to London a decade ago... As the show approaches,
love and friendships blossom and the real question is - Will they?
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spirit. I loved it!' Mandy Baggot
Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in
children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia
artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music,
performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood for more than thirty years. In his almost nine-hundred
episodes, Rogers pursued dramatic topics: divorce, death, war,
sibling rivalry, disabilities, racism. Rogers' direct, slow,
gentle, and empathic approach is supported by his superior
emotional strength, his intellectual and creative courage, and his
joyful spiritual confidence. The Green Mister Rogers:
Environmentalism in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" centers on the
show's environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed
week "Caring for the Environment," produced in 1990 in coordination
with the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day. Unfolding against a
trash catastrophe in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers
advances an environmentalism for children that secures children in
their family homes while extending their perspective to faraway
places, from the local recycling center to Florida's coral reef.
Rogers depicts animal wisdom and uses puppets to voice anxiety and
hope and shows an interconnected world where each part of creation
is valued, and love is circulated in networks of care. Ultimately,
Rogers cultivates a practical wisdom that provides a way for
children to confront the environmental crisis through action and
hope and, in doing so, develop into adults who possess greater care
for the environment and a capacious imagination for solving the
ecological problems we face.
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