Radical Revival as Adaptation

Jozefina Komporaly is an academic and translator. She works on cultural exchanges between European and Anglophone performance traditions, through the lens of adaptation and translation. She is the author of Staging Motherhood (Palgrave, 2006), and edited the anthologies Matéi Visniec: How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients and Other Plays (2015) and András Visky’s Barrack Dramaturgy: Memories of the Body (2017).

• Acknowledgements.- Foreword; Karin Coonrod.- Introduction.- 1. Adaptive Re-Contextualisations: Hamlet for the Here and the Now, or Re-Appropriating the Canon.- 2. Re-Theatricalising the Canon: Silviu Purcărete’s Faust and Julius Caesar.- 3. Adaptation as Experiential Theatre: Immersion and the Dramaturgy of Fragmentation (The Drowned Man, Hotel Medea).- 4. Adaptation as Remediation and Collaborative Practice (Elevator Repair Service, Frantic Assembly).- 5. Adaptation at the Crossroads: Cultural Syncretism and Multimodality in Performance (Zecora Ura/Para-Active, Pansori Project ZA).- 6. Adapting the Non-adaptable: Rimini Protokoll’s Das Kapital and Mein Kampf.- Conclusions.- Bibliography.- Index.-