Adaptation for the Stage - a transformative experience between languages and genres
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Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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Join us to transform short fiction into drama, exploring how the reworking of literary language through creative chaos can be reinterpreted and reworked. Whether interlingual, intercultural or intergeneric, adaptation as a creative endeavour involves a multidisciplinary practice of creative choices, both formal and conceptual. Bring your ideas and questions.
Author Isabel del Rio and Birkbeck's Seda Ilter guide us on this adaptation journey. We first examine the translation between languages and then focus on the transition between genres. We will begin with Isabel’s original text, a fantasy short story written and published in Spanish (La autora del fin del mundo), which she later translated into English (The Author of the End of the World). Isabel then adapted the English version for the stage (The End of the World), adding stage directions, a new setting, and character development (including the introduction of an antagonist). The plot centres on a female protagonist who is writing about the end of the world, and it recounts how, unintentionally, she brings it about. The discussion on the complexities of the adaptation process will be followed by a script-in-hand performance of the play. There will be a Q&A at the end of the event.
Contact name: Sue Wiseman
Speakers- Dr Isabel del Rio
- Dr Seda Ilter
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