TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reilly,Kara
TI  - Contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre
T2  - Adaptation in theatre and performance
SN  - 9781137597830 (e-book)
PY  - 2018///
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Stage adaptations
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Theater
KW  - Production and direction
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Theatre studies
KW  - thema
KW  - Theatre direction & production
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781137597823; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 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 explorescompany 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 atthe 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 examinescontemporary 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 comprehensivestudy offers insights into key productions, ideas about approaches to adaptation, and current debates on fidelity, postmodernism and remediation
UR  - https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestLondon&isbn=9781137597830
ER  -