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- Adapting Greek Tragedy
- Adapting Greek Tragedy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Prelude
- Part I Adapting Greek Tragedy
- Part II Adaptation on the Page and on the Stage
- Chapter 5 Interlude
- Chapter 6 The View from the Archive
- Chapter 7 Compromise, Contingency, and Gendered Reception
- Chapter 8 Technology, Media, and Intermediality in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
- Chapter 9 Violence in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
- Chapter 10 Adaptations of Greek Tragedies in Non-Western Performance Cultures
- Chapter 11 Cultural Identities
- Chapter 12 Trapped between Fidelity and Adaptation?
- Chapter 13 Adaptation and the Transtextual Palimpsest
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Interlude
Speaking Up: Theatre Practitioners on Adapting the Classics
from Part II - Adaptation on the Page and on the Stage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2021
- Adapting Greek Tragedy
- Adapting Greek Tragedy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Prelude
- Part I Adapting Greek Tragedy
- Part II Adaptation on the Page and on the Stage
- Chapter 5 Interlude
- Chapter 6 The View from the Archive
- Chapter 7 Compromise, Contingency, and Gendered Reception
- Chapter 8 Technology, Media, and Intermediality in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
- Chapter 9 Violence in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
- Chapter 10 Adaptations of Greek Tragedies in Non-Western Performance Cultures
- Chapter 11 Cultural Identities
- Chapter 12 Trapped between Fidelity and Adaptation?
- Chapter 13 Adaptation and the Transtextual Palimpsest
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Given the multi-perspectival context of our volume, we thought it necessary to bring three renowned theatre artists into the room and invite them to share with our readers their insights on adaptation as a practice of high interpretative value. To this purpose, I conducted a series of interviews with two theatre directors and one playwright, all of whom internationally acclaimed. The discussion that some of the questions generated addressed the challenges – dramaturgical, stylistic, and ethical – that are part and parcel of the philosophy and the special dynamics of adaptation; in other words, of the conceptual base from which directors and writers embark and of the creative choices they make in their attempt to bring Greek tragedy closer to the emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual needs of the present-day spectator.
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- Adapting Greek TragedyContemporary Contexts for Ancient Texts, pp. 157 - 181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021