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Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre

Kara Reilly editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:30th Aug '18

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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.

“The [book] supply useful indices and are edited to high academic Standards … . They can be wholeheartedly recommended and testify to the vibrancy of adaptation studies way beyond the traditional novel-into-film model.” (Eckart Voigts, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)

ISBN: 9781349955800

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 506g

357 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018