This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies.
This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies. It explores company and directorial approaches to adaptation through analysis of the work of Kneehigh, Mabou Mines, Robert Le Page and Katie Mitchell. It then moves on to look at the transformation of the novel onto the stage in the work of Mitchell, and in The Red Badge of Courage, The Kite Runner, Anne Frank, and Fanny Hill. Next, it examines contemporary radical adaptations of Trojan Women and The Iliad. Finally, it looks at five different approaches to postmodern metatheatrical adaptation in early modern texts of Hamlet, The Changeling, and Faustus, as well as the work of the Neo-Futurists, and the mash-up Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella. Overall, this comprehensive study offers insights into key productions, ideas about approaches to adaptation, and current debates on fidelity, postmodernism and remediation.
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The [ book] supply useful indices and are edited to high academic Standards . They can be wholeheartedly recommended and testify to the vibrancy of adaptation studies way beyond the traditional novel-into-film model. (Eckart Voigts, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)
Acknowledgements.- Introduction to Contemporary Approaches to
Adaptation, Kara Reilly.- Section I Introduction: Company and Directorial
Approaches to Adaptation, Scott Proudfit.- Kneehighs Retellings, Heather
Lilley.- Collective Creation & Historical Imagination: Mabou Miness
Devised Adaptations of History, Jessica Brater.- Making Music Visible: Robert
Lepage Adapts Aspects of Siegfried Without Shifting a Word, Melissa
Poll.- The thrill of doing it live: devising and performing Katie
Mitchells international live cinema productions, Adam J. Ledger.- Section
2 Introduction: Re-mediating the Book to the Stage, Frances Babbage.-
(Re)Mediating the Modernist Novel: Katie Mitchells Live Cinema
Work, Benjamin Fowler.- The Spirit of the Source: Adaptation Dramaturgy and
Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage, Jane Barnette.- Have We Found Anne
Frank? A Critical Analysis of Theater Amsterdams Anne, Samantha
Mitschke.- Adapting The Kite Runner: A Fidelity Project to Re-imagine
AfghanAura, Edmund Chow.- Fanny Hill Onstage: TheatreState and April De
Angeliss feminist adaptations, Kara Reilly.- Section 3 Introduction:
Reinscribing the Other in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy and
Epic, Eleftheria Ioannidou.- Hypertheatrical Engagement with Euripides
Trojan Women: a female writ of habeas corpus, Olga Kekis.- A Tale of Two
Jordans: Representing Syrian Refugees Before and After 2011, George
Potter.- Homer in Palestine, Gabriel Varghese.- Section 4 Introduction:
Postmodern Meta-Theatrical Adaptation, Kimberly Jannarone.- The
Neo-Futurists() Take on Eugene ONeills Strange Interlude, Adrian
Curtin.- Theatrical Mash-Up: Assembled Text as Adaptation in
Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, Scott Proudfit.- Controversal Intentions:
Adaptation as an act of iconoclasm in Rupert Goold and Ben Powers Faustus
(2004) and the Chapman Brothers Insult to Injury (2003), Sarah
Grochala.- Multivalence: The Young Vic and a postmodern Changeling, 2012,
Nora Williams.- Ensaio.Hamlet:adaptation as rehearsal as essay, Pedro de
Senna.- Index.
Kara Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Her books include Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History (2011) and the edited collection Theatre, Performance and Analogue (2013). She is co-editor of the book series Adaptation in Theatre and Performance with Vicky Angelaki.
