Staging and Performing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Metaphor and Metonymy: the Translator-Practitioner’s Visibility....Pages 11-30
The Translator as metteur en scène, with Reference to Les Aveugles [The Blind] by Maurice Maeterlinck....Pages 31-48
Musical Realizations: a Performance-based Translation of Rhythm in Koltès’ Dans la solitude des champs de coton ....Pages 49-71
The Theatre Sign Language Interpreter and the Competing Visual Narrative: the Translation and Interpretation of Theatrical Texts into British Sign Language....Pages 72-86
Inferential Meaning in Drama Translation: the Role of Implicature in the Staging Process of Anouilh’s Antigone ....Pages 87-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Translating Bodies: Strategies for Exploiting Embodied Knowledge in the Translation and Adaptation of Chinese Xiqu Plays....Pages 107-125
Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera for the National Theatre: a 3p Opera?....Pages 126-138
The Translator as Cultural Promoter: or how Renato Gabrielli’s Qualcosa Trilla went on the Road as Mobile Thriller ....Pages 139-154
 Cow-boy poétré: a Bilingual Performance for a Unilingual Audience....Pages 155-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Interview with Christopher Hampton....Pages 173-186
Not Lost in Translation....Pages 187-199
Roundtable on Collaborative Theatre Translation Projects: Experiences and Perspectives....Pages 200-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
 The Impotents: Conflictual Significance Imposed on the Creation and Reception of an Arabic-to-Hebrew Translation for the Stage....Pages 215-229
The Politics of Translating Contemporary French Theatre: How ‘Linguistic Translation’ Becomes ‘Stage Translation’....Pages 230-248
Translating Zapolska: Research through Practice....Pages 249-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-277