Contemporary Performance Translation: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Stage (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) - Softcover

Graham-Jones, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009180134 ISBN 13: 9781009180139

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Radically rethinking translation for the contemporary international stage, Jean Graham-Jones interrogates standard linguistic and cultural categories and proposes an overhaul of the translation process itself, incorporating dramaturgical logic and staging, actor training and performance styles, gesture and embodiment, and performance aesthetics and reception. She demonstrates how a theory of translationality – in which translations do not erase the original but rather stand in relation to it and to other texts and performances – encapsulates the collaborative process between contemporary translators and theatre artists. Presenting multiple experiential cases and drawing on Graham-Jones's own career as a translator, actor, director and scholar working in Argentina, the US, and the UK, this richly interdisciplinary work extends a traditional understanding of contemporary performance translation and its potential in theatrical practice.

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About the Author

Jean Graham-Jones is Lucille Lortel Professor of Theatre at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. A theatre artist and scholar, she has translated into English some two dozen plays by Argentinian artists (in five edited collections) and published widely on Latin American (especially Argentinian) theatre and performance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009180134
• ISBN 13: 9781009180139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196