Theatre and Adaptation - Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Hardcover)

Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works by other artists, writers, filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned theatre and performance artists, "Theatre and Adaptation" provides an exceptionally rich study of the variety of work developed in recent years. First-hand accounts illuminate a diverse range of approaches to stage adaptation, ranging from playwriting to directing, Javanese puppetry to British children's theatre, and feminist performance to Japanese Noh. The transition of an existing source to the stage is not a smooth one: this collection examines the practices and the complex set of negotiations each work of transition and appropriation involves. Including interviews with Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Handspring Puppet Company, Katie Mitchell, Rimini Protokoll, Elevator Repair Service, Simon Stephens, Ong Keng Sen and Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the volume reveals performance's enduring desire to return, rewrite and repeat.

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	October 2014
Editors:	Margherita Laera
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-4725-3316-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4725-3316-X
Barcode:	9781472533166

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