Welcome to the Fall 2023 issue of The Mercurian! We begin the issue with May Farnsworth, Camila García, and Erin Griffis’ collective translation of Argentine playwright Malena Sándor’s 1946 play, Penelope No Longer Knits. As the translators point out in their introduction, Sándor creates a feminist paean to female desire and autonomy at a time…
Penelope No Longer Knits
By Malena Sándor
Translated from Spanish by May Farnsworth, Camila García, and Erin Griffis
The Children of Malinche
By Hugo Salcedo
Translated from Spanish by Carolyn Malloy and Georgina Whittingham
Crime and Punishment
By Andrzej Wajda
Translated from Polish by Magda Romanska
Cristina Peréz Díaz. Antígona: by José Watanabe – A Bilingual Edition with Critical Essays. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 157pp. Reviewed by Katherine Nigh While taking notes for this review, auto-correct attempted to replace Antígona with Antigone on multiple occasions. This faux-pas on the part of my phone poetically illustrates many of the arguments…
Sophie Stevens, Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Leyenda, 2022. Reviewed by Brenda Werth Sophie Stevens’ Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice is a welcome and much needed contribution to Uruguayan theatre studies and translation. Building on a growing interest in Spanish language plays in the UK, Stevens’ book lends visibility to…
Welcome to the Spring 2023 issue of The Mercurian! We open the issue with Ieva Lākute’s translation of Latvian playwright Justīne Kļava’s play Ladies. With humor and pathos Ladies depicts the lives of three generations of women in the same family as they try to make sense of their lives in a decrepit district of Riga.…
By Justīne Kļava Translated from Latvian by Ieva Lākute Volume 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2023) Translator’s Preface: Rooted in Justīne’s personal experiences, the one-act family drama Dāmas (Ladies) was first staged in April 2016 by Teātris TT. After a sold-out season, it went on to receive five nominations at the Latvian National Theatre Awards, including…
By Virgilio Piñera Translated from Cuban Spanish by Linda S. Howe Volumne 9, Issue 3 (Spring 2023) The author and context. Virgilio Piñera published the text of his play Los Siervos [The Serfs], a caustic attack on Stalinism and totalitarianism, in the Havana journal Ciclón in November 1955. He embraced the bleak irony of Adamov,…
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