Contemporary Approaches to Adaptation in Theatre

Part I. Company and Directorial Approaches to Adaptation, Introduced by Scott Proudfit

1. Kneehigh’s Retellings

Heather Lilley

2. Collective Creation and ‘Historical Imagination’: Mabou Mines’s Devised Adaptations of History
Jessica Silsby Brater

3. Making Music Visible: Robert Lepage Adapts Aspects of Siegfried Without Shifting a Word
Melissa Poll

4. ‘The Thrill of Doing it Live’: Devising and Performing Katie Mitchell’s International ‘Live Cinema’ Productions
Adam J. Ledger

Part II. Re-mediating the Book to the Stage, Introduced by Frances Babbage

5. (Re)Mediating the Modernist Novel: Katie Mitchell’s Live Cinema Work
Benjamin Fowler

6. The Spirit of the Source: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

Jane Barnette

7. Have We Found Anne Frank? A Critical Analysis of Theater Amsterdam’s Anne

Samantha Mitschke

8. Adapting The Kite Runner: A Fidelity Project to Re-Imagine Afghan Aura
Edmund Chow

9. Fanny Hill Onstage: TheatreState and April De Angelis’s Feminist Adaptations
Kara Reilly

Part III. Reinscribing the Other in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy, Introduced by Eleftheria Ioannidou

10. Hypertheatrical Engagement with Euripides’ Trojan Women: A Female ‘Writ of Habeas Corpus’
Olga Kekis

11. A Tale of Two Jordans: Representing Syrian Refugees Before and After 2011
George Potter

12. Homer in Palestine
Gabriel Varghese

Part IV. Postmodern Meta-Theatrical Adaptation, Introduced by Kimberly Jannarone

13. The Neo-Futurists(’) Take on Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude

Adrian Curtin

14. Theatrical Mash-up: Assembled Text as Adaptation in Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella

Scott Proudfit

15. 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

16. Multivalence: The Young Vic and a Postmodern Changeling, 2012
Nora J. Williams

17.
Ensaio.Hamlet: Adaptation as Rehearsal as Essay
Pedro de Senna

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies