Staging and Performing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice

✍ Scribed by Roger Baines, Cristina Marinetti, Manuela Perteghella (editors)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This exploration of the territory between theory and practice in contemporary theatre features essays by academics from theatre and translation studies, and delineates a new space for the discussion of translation in the theatre that is international, critical and scholarly, while rooted in experience and understanding of theatre practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Table......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Explorations and Experiments in Theory and Practice......Page 24
1 Metaphor and Metonymy: the Translator-Practitioner's Visibility......Page 26
2 The Translator as metteur en scène, with Reference to Les Aveugles [The Blind] by Maurice Maeterlinck......Page 46
3 Musical Realizations: a Performance-based Translation of Rhythm in Koltès' Dans la solitude des champs de coton......Page 64
4 The Theatre Sign Language Interpreter and the Competing Visual Narrative: the Translation and Interpretation of Theatrical Texts into British Sign Language......Page 87
5 Inferential Meaning in Drama Translation: the Role of Implicature in the Staging Process of Anouilh's Antigone......Page 102
Part II: Practical Perspectives on Translation, Adapting and Staging......Page 120
6 Translating Bodies: Strategies for Exploiting Embodied Knowledge in the Translation and Adaptation of Chinese Xiqu Plays......Page 122
7 Brecht's The Threepenny Opera for the National Theatre: a 3p Opera?......Page 141
8 The Translator as Cultural Promoter: or how Renato Gabrielli's Qualcosa Trilla went on the Road as Mobile Thriller......Page 154
9 Cow-boy poétré: a Bilingual Performance for a Unilingual Audience......Page 170
Part III: In Conversation with Practitioners......Page 186
10 Interview with Christopher Hampton......Page 188
11 Not Lost in Translation......Page 202
12 Roundtable on Collaborative Theatre Translation Projects: Experiences and Perspectives......Page 215
Part IV: Politics, Ethics and Stage Translation......Page 228
13 The Impotents: Conflictual Significance Imposed on the Creation and Reception of an Arabic-to-Hebrew Translation for the Stage......Page 230
14 The Politics of Translating Contemporary French Theatre: how 'Linguistic Translation' Becomes 'Stage Translation'......Page 245
15 Translating Zapolska: Research through Practice......Page 264
Index......Page 282