Ethical Exchanges in Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Stuart Young, PhD, Cambridge, is Professor of Theatre Studies and Head of Music, Theatre and Performing Arts, University of Otago. His research, which includes practice-as-research, traverses Theatre of the Real, the (re)production of Chekhov’s plays, and translation for the stage.Andrea Pelegrí Kristić is an actress, translator, and PhD candidate at Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she was associate professor 2013-15. Her research focuses mainly on theatre translation and Translation Studies.Emer O’Toole, PhD (2012), Royal Holloway University of London, is Assistant Professor of Irish Performance at Concordia University, Montreal. Her book Girls Will Be Girls (2015) is an accesible introduction to gender performativity. Her research spans interculturalism, ethics, performativity and activism.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: Othering SamenessEmer O'Toole and Andrea Pelegr¡ Kristi?PART 1: Culpable Dramaturgies1The Ethics of the Representation of the Real People and Their Stories in Verbatim TheatreStuart Young2The Witness Turn in the Performance of Violence, Trauma, and the RealSuzanne LittlePART 2: Adaptive Politics3Re-Routing Ibsen: Adaptation as Tenancy/Occupation in Simon Stone's The Wild Duck and Thomas Ostermeier's An Enemy of the PeopleGlenn D'Cruz4Intercultural Adaptation: The Ethics of Peter Brook's 11 and 12Emer O'ToolePART 3: Collaborative Ethics5Ethical Challenges in Adaptation: Gothic Eurico from Novel to PerformanceGra‡a P. Corrˆa6The Nomadic Dramaturge: Negotiating Subjectivity, Multicultural Translation, and Dramaturgical CompositionFiona GrahamPART 4: Stolen in Translation-Ambiguity and Omission7One Problem Play, Two Measures: Translatability of Christian Ethics in Two Adaptations of Measure for MeasureJenny Wong8The Poetics and Politics of Un/translatability in Timberlake Wertenbaker's New AnatomiesCarol L. Yang9From Greek into Neutral: Translating Contemporary Greek Theatre during the Eurozone CrisisMaria Mytilinaki KennedyPART 5: Postdramatic Dramaturgies, Ethical "Realities"10A Dramaturgy of Montage and Dislocation: Brecht, Warburg, Didi-Huberman, and the PathosformelJonathan W. Marshall11Staging the Ethical Dilemma of Liveness: John Jesurun's Divergent Play with ConvergenceChristophe CollardIndex