Overview
- Includes analysis of a broad range of case studies, including work by Alexandru Tocilescu, Thomas Ostermeier, Silviu Purcarete, and Rimini Protokoll
- Argues that radical adaptations can carve new and innovative paths in performance practice
- Considers the broader question of the limits of adaptability in theatre
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (ATP)
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“Jozefina Komporaly's Radical Revival and Adaptation: Theatre, Politics, and Society provides a critically coherent and consistently argued frame for understanding and appreciating contemporary theatre examined as a reinvention of the traditional dramatic repertoire and of dramatised versions of other genres. It delivers a profound and innovative rethinking of radical revivals that "complicate and resituate audience engagement". In articulating the complexities of a cutting edge radical revival that recommends the author as a leader in the field, this seminal study furnishes a wonderfully condensed overview that highlights insix chapters the authority of the creator and that of the spectator united in generating and explanding a performance's "plurality and relativity of meanings".” (Professor Ileana Alexandra Orlich, Director, Romanian and Central European Cultural Collaborative, School of International Letters and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, USA)
“This is a sophisticated contribution to the development of varied definitions for the acts of adaptation in theatre and performance, including challenging thoughts about the boundaries of adaptability. Clear-headed, informed and informative, and suitably open to the engaged reader.” (Graham Ley, Professor Emeritus of Drama and Theory, University of Exeter, UK)
“Jozefina Komporaly's Radical Revival and Adaptation: Theatre, Politics, and Society provides a critically coherent and consistently argued frame for understanding and appreciating contemporary theatre examined as a reinvention of the traditional
dramatic repertoire and of dramatised versions of other genres. It delivers a profound and innovative rethinking of radical revivals that "complicate and resituate audience engagement". In articulating the complexities of a cutting edge radical revival that recommends the author as a leader in the field, this seminal study furnishes a wonderfully condensed overview that highlights in six chapters the authority of the creator and that of the spectator united in generating and explanding a performance's "plurality and relativity of meanings”.” (Professor Ileana Alexandra Orlich, Director, Romanian and Central European Cultural Collaborative, School of International Letters and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, USA)
“This pioneering study surveys an exceptionally broad spectrum of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century theatre and performance practice, unfolding aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of radical revivals of cl
assics as adaptations. Reaching well beyond the Anglophone world for illuminating case studies, this timely monograph celebrates the transnational aspect of cutting edge contemporary theatre adaptations which are artistic achievements in their own right rather than close stage realisations of easily identifiable sources. Drawing on an impressively wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of theatre and performance studies, adaptation discourse and British, North American and ‘Continental European’ theatre practice, Komporaly’s work reminds us of the subversive, revolutionary and transformative power of adaptation.” (Dr Marta Minier, University of South Wales, UK, co-editor of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jozefina Komporaly is an academic and translator. She works on cultural exchanges between European and Anglophone performance traditions, through the lens of adaptation and translation. She is the author of Staging Motherhood (Palgrave, 2006), and edited the anthologies Matéi Visniec: How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays (2015) and András Visky’s Barrack Dramaturgy: Memories of the Body (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Radical Revival as Adaptation
Book Subtitle: Theatre, Politics, Society
Authors: Jozefina Komporaly
Series Title: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48102-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48101-6Published: 19 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48102-3Published: 05 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-4043
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4051
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies