[ePub] Travels with a Mexican Circus by Katie Hickman at Arts-Photography

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Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance; new writing; West End drama; musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works by other artists; writers; filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned theatre and performance artists; Theatre and Adaptation provides an exceptionally rich study of the variety of work developed in recent years. First-hand accounts illuminate a diverse range of approaches to stage adaptation; ranging from playwriting to directing; Javanese puppetry to British childrens theatre; and feminist performance to Japanese Noh. The transition of an existing source to the stage is not a smooth one: this collection examines the practices and the complex set of negotiations each work of transition and appropriation involves. Including interviews with Socigrave;etas Raffaello Sanzio; Handspring Puppet Company; Katie Mitchell; Rimini Protokoll; Elevator Repair Service; Simon Stephens; Ong Keng Sen and Toneelgroep Amsterdam; the volume reveals performances enduring desire to return; rewrite and repeat.