Editor’s Note

Welcome to the Spring 2026 issue of The Mercurian! The issue opens with Elton Uliana’s translation of contemporary Brazilian playwright Andréa Bassit’s one-act The Evicted Soul.  The Evicted Soul is an award-winning solo piece depicting a seventy-year-old woman has died, but still lingers in her house, vacillating between memory and confession as she tells the…

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the Fall 2025 issue of The Mercurian! We begin with Henning Bochert’s translation of Özlem Özgül Dündar’s play body without borders.  The translation has its genesis in a collaboration between Jospeh Megel, Artistic Director of UNC’s the Process Series, and Bochert that began with Theatrical Translation as Creative Process: A Conference Festival here…

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the first ever Special Issue of The Mercurian! This issue begins what we hope will become an ongoing relationship between The Mercurian and Eurodram, the European Network for theatre translation. I first became aware of Eurodram in 2016 while attending the Istanbul Theatre Festival with the Fence, a network of people who put…

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the Spring 2024 issue of The Mercurian! Following up on Magda Romanska’s translation of the great Polish film director Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment published in the Fall 2023 issue of The Mercurian, this issue begins with Romanska’s translation of Wajda’s adaptation of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz’s stage adaptation of his novella…

Editor’s Note

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…

Editor’s Note

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.…

Editor’s Note

Volume 9, Issue 2 (Fall 2022) Welcome to the Fall 2022 issue of The Mercurian! The issue opens with John J. Hanlon’s translation of Artur Solomonov’s 2018 play How We Buried Josef Stalin.  As Hanlon points out in his introduction, this funny, satiric piece prefigures many current events such as Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, various…