Staging and Performing Translation Text and Theatre Practice

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.

Roger Baines is Head of the School of Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has published on the work of Pierre Mac Orlan, Personal insults and ritual insults in contemporary French, and the translation and adaptation of Adel Hakim's 1990 play Excuteur 14. Cristina Marinetti is Assistant Professor in Translation Studies at the University of Warwick, UK and associate editor of the translation, journal Target. She has published on translation theory; translation for performance; Italian and British theatre with a specialization in Goldoni and commedia dell'arte. Recent projects explore meeting grounds between translation and performance in multilingual, migrant theatres. Manuela Perteghella is Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation at London Metropolitan University, UK. She has published on theatre translation and literary translation and has co-edited Translation and Creativity: Perspectives on Creative Writing and Translation Studies, and One Poem in Search of a Translation: Rewriting 'Les Fentres' by Apollinaire.

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Roger Baines, Cristina Marinetti, Manuela Perteghella
PART I: EXPLORATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
'Metaphor and metonymy: the translator-practitioner's visibility'; D. Johnston
'The Translator as metteur en scène, with reference to Les Aveugles [The Blind] by Maurice Maeterlinck'; C.-A. Upton
'Musical realisations: a performance-based translation of rhythm in Koltès' Dans la solitude des champs de coton';  R. Baines& F. Dalmasso
'The Theatre sign language interpreter and the competing visual narrative: the translation and interpretation of theatrical texts into British Sign Language'; S. Rocks
'Inferential meaning in Drama Translation: the role of implicature in the staging process of Anouilh's Antigone'; A. Wolf
PART II: PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSLATION, ADAPTING AND STAGING  
'Translating bodies: replication as a tool for translation and adaptation of Chinese xiqu plays'; M. Evans
'The Threepenny Opera for the National Theatre - a 3p opera?'; A. Meech
Chapter 3: 'The translator as cultural promoter, or how Renato Gabrielli's Qualcosa Trilla went on the road as Mobile Thriller'; M. Rose
'La Parole bilingue en traduction: performing bilingual plays for Francophone audiences'; L. Ladouceur & N. Nolette
PART III: IN CONVERSATION WITH PRACTITIONERS
Interview with Christopher Hampton; R. Baines& M. Perteghella
'Not Lost in Translation'; J. Bradley
Roundtable on collaborative theatre translation projects: experiences and perspectives; J. Meth, K. Mendelsohn,& Z. Svendsen
PART IV: POLITICS, ETHICS AND STAGE TRANSLATION
'The Impotents: politics imposed upon the creation and reception of an Arabic to Hebrew translation for the stage'; Y. Benshalom
'Translating and directing the plays of Gabriela Zapolska'; T. Murjas
Index