Useful Phones (In Case of Emergency)

By Jessica Lusia
Translated by Manoela Wolff

If you knew that your heart would stop in the next second, to whom would you dedicate its last beat?

Distance and Proximity in Analysing and Translating Bailando sola cada noche (Dancing alone every night)

By Sophie Louise Stevens

This article focuses on the process of translating Bailando sola cada noche written by Uruguayan dramatist Raquel Diana in 2008.

Review: Loose Screws: Nine New Plays from Poland. Edited by Dominika Laster

Reviewed by Alena Aniskieicz

Debates over the past, present, and future of Poland have long played out in the nation’s dramatic writings.

Editor’s Note 6.1

As the summer heat and humidity begins to descend upon North Carolina, welcome to the unavoidably delayed Spring 2016 issue of The Mercurian.

Wealth

By Arisophanes
Translated by Karen Rosenbecker

First, I bow to the sun, grateful to see his radiance again, then to the famous soil of Pallas Athena and all the land of Cecrops which has received me, a weary wayward wanderer, come back to her own native shore, to the glory that is Greece and the grandeur that is home.

The Last Scene

By Alain Foix
Translated by Amelia Parenteau

The Last Scene offers an almost dreamy depiction of violent realities, and a fascinating window into our past, through a lens of French interpretation.

Phaedra

By Racine
Translated by Catherine Esther Styles

Although Racine’s Phèdre is acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of European literature, it is not often performed in English.

Researching and Directing Guillén de Castro’s The Force of Habit

By Sara Freeman

This article tells the tale of several pieces of scholarship that had a deep impact upon our show, in the spirit of demonstrating the richness theatre history and historiography incorporate into a show process.

Review: (A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage. Edited by Krystyna Duniec, Joana Klass, and Joanna Krakowska

Reviewed by Will Harrington

Many of the problems associated with being Polish in relation to other countries should not be out of place for those wondering what it means to be American, British, Australian, or any of the other English-speaking nations this fresh translation hopes to target.

Editor’s Note 5.4

Welcome to the Fall 2015 issue of The Mercurian. The contents of this issue represent the results of a number of ongoing relationships and collaborations related to theatrical translation that I have engaged in over the past few years.