Contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre / Kara Reilly, editor.
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TextSeries: Adaptation in theatre and performanceCopyright date: London : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2018 [2018]Description: xxix, 357 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781137597830 (e-book)Subject(s): Stage adaptations -- Case studies | Theater -- Production and direction -- Case studies | Performing Arts | Theatre studies | Theatre direction & productionGenre/Form: Online access: Open e-book Also available in printed form ISBN 9781137597823Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781137597823
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