Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre: 26 (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1836244320 ISBN 13: 9781836244325

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2025

Synopsis

In this volume, we are particularly interested in approaching theatre and performance as a dynamic and evolving practice of continuous change, regeneration and cultural mobility. Neither the dramatic texts nor their stage versions should be viewed as finished products but as creative processes in the making. Their richness lies in their unfinished and never-ending potential energy and their openness to constant revision, rehearsal, revival, and collective enterprise. This edited collection aims to create a dialogue on the artistic processes implicated in the various ways of working with the play text, the staging practices, the way audiences and critical reception can impact a production, and the many lives of Iberian theatre beyond the page or the stage. That is, its cultural and social legacies.

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About the Authors

María Chouza-Calo is Professor of Spanish at Central Michigan University.

Esther Fernández is Associate Professor of Iberian Studies at Rice University.

Jonathan Thacker is King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1836244320
• ISBN 13: 9781836244325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Chouza-Calo María, Fernández Esther, Thacker Jonathan