On action and discovery and what to do with them in translation and performance

• Autores: Catherine Boyle
• Localización: Daring adaptations, creative failures and experimental performances in Iberian theatre / coord. por María del Pilar Chouza Calo, Esther Fernández Rodríguez, Jonathan Thacker, 2023, ISBN 1-80207-338-8, págs. 95-110
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • What is the unsafe stage? Here I will discuss my own attempts as a translator to bring disruptive texts to the UK stage. I will explore what happens when translating theater that has been written and performed in spaces of what I have previously called cultural extremity, where the theater is “militantly alien in its own environment,” about “extreme experiences lived, shared, remembered by the community from which the practitioners emerge” (Boyle, 2013, 208). These plays come from a theater of dissent, where the unsafe stage challenges, disrupts, takes risks, and exposes itself and its participants to danger with real-life...