Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Front Matter ....Pages 1-4 Kneehigh’s Retellings (Heather Lilley)....Pages 5-24 Collective Creation and ‘Historical Imagination’: Mabou Mines’s Devised Adaptations of History (Jessica Silsby Brater)....Pages 25-47 Making Music Visible: Robert Lepage Adapts Aspects of Siegfried Without Shifting a Word (Melissa Poll)....Pages 49-68 ‘The Thrill of Doing it Live’: Devising and Performing Katie Mitchell’s International ‘Live Cinema’ Productions (Adam J. Ledger)....Pages 69-90 Front Matter ....Pages 91-95 (Re)Mediating the Modernist Novel: Katie Mitchell’s Live Cinema Work (Benjamin Fowler)....Pages 97-119 The Spirit of the Source: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (Jane Barnette)....Pages 121-142 Have We Found Anne Frank? A Critical Analysis of Theater Amsterdam’s Anne (Samantha Mitschke)....Pages 143-160 Adapting The Kite Runner: A Fidelity Project to Re-Imagine Afghan Aura (Edmund Chow)....Pages 161-174 Fanny Hill Onstage: TheatreState and April De Angelis’s Feminist Adaptations (Kara Reilly)....Pages 175-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-193 Hypertheatrical Engagement with Euripides’ Trojan Women: A Female ‘Writ of Habeas Corpus’ (Olga Kekis)....Pages 195-212 A Tale of Two Jordans: Representing Syrian Refugees Before and After 2011 (George Potter)....Pages 213-230 Homer in Palestine (Gabriel Varghese)....Pages 231-246 Front Matter ....Pages 247-249 The Neo-Futurists(’) Take on Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude (Adrian Curtin)....Pages 251-273 Theatrical Mash-up: Assembled Text as Adaptation in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Scott Proudfit)....Pages 275-294 Controversial Intentions: Adaptation as an Act of Iconoclasm in Rupert Goold and Ben Power’s Faustus (2004) and the Chapman Brothers’ Insult to Injury (2003) (Sarah Grochala)....Pages 295-316 Multivalence: The Young Vic and a Postmodern Changeling, 2012 (Nora J. Williams)....Pages 317-330 Ensaio.Hamlet: Adaptation as Rehearsal as Essay (Pedro de Senna)....Pages 331-347 Back Matter ....Pages 349-357