Review of Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage: A Guide and Workbook for New and Experienced Writers

Jacqueline Goldfinger and Allison Horsley. Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage: A Guide and Workbook for New and Experienced Writers. London: Routledge, 2023. Reviewed by Lindsay Webster and Jane Barnette Jacqueline Goldfinger and Allison Horsley’s recent guide and workbook is a slim volume of 125 pages that intends to serve as a user-friendly “community…

Review of Theatre Translation: Theory and Practice

Massimiiliano Morini. Theatre Translation: Theory and Practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Reviewed by Emma Pauly Massimiliano Morini’s Theatre Translation: Theory and Practice opens with a metaphor borrowed from Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall, the story of a civilization subjected, every two thousand years, to a consuming total eclipse that plunges the populace into madness, ruin, and the…

In Review: Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan: Staging the Resistance

Reviewed by Beverley Curran

Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan: Staging the resistance covers a lot of ground in its selective but superb tracing of a century of political performances in Japan in theatre and other media to show both the translation of approaches to history and the shifting meaning of the imported terms “liberty” (jiyuu) and “revolution” (kakumei) in different Japanese cultural contexts.

In Review: Selected Serbian Comedies

Reviewed by Vladimir Zorić

The common thread in all these comedies, regardless of their time of composition or their particular plot, is Serbia’s precipitous, never accomplished transition from a staunchly patriarchal society, driven by bonds of family kinship and the sacrificial myth of Kosovo, to a modern nation-state, marked competitive entrepreneurship, where success is reserved for individuals.