Books in the Adaptation in Theatre and Performance series

The book discusses five British and Irish playwrights and their current adaptations, examining well-known dramatists such as Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane and Brian Friel, while analysing some of their less well-known plays, offering a novel examination of the adaptation process.

This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies.

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage¿s scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage¿s technique is defined here as ¿scenographic dramaturgy¿, a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural collaboration to re-envision extant plays and operas. Following a detailed analysis of Lepage¿s adaptive process and its place in the continuum of scenic writing and auteur theatre, this book features four case studies charting the role of Lepage¿s scenographic dramaturgy in re-¿writing¿ extant texts, including Shakespeare¿s Tempest on Huron-Wendat territory, Stravinsky¿s Nightingale in a twenty-seven ton pool, and Wagner¿s Ring cycle via the infamous, sixteen-million-dollar Metropolitan Opera production. The final case study offers the first interrogation of Lepage¿s twenty-first century ¿auto-adaptations¿ of his own seminal texts, The Dragons¿ Trilogy and Needles & Opium. Though aimed at academic readers, this book will also appeal to practitioners given its focus on performance-making, adaptation and intercultural collaboration.

This book examines contemporary approaches to adaptation in theatre through seventeen international case studies.

This book theorizes auteur Robert Lepage's scenography-based approach to adapting canonical texts. Lepage's technique is defined here as 'scenographic dramaturgy', a process and product that de-privileges dramatic text and relies instead on evocative, visual performance and intercultural collaboration to re-envision extant plays and operas. Following a detailed analysis of Lepage's adaptive process and its place in the continuum of scenic writing and auteur theatre, this book features four case studies charting the role of Lepage's scenographic dramaturgy in re-'writing' extant texts, including Shakespeare's Tempest on Huron-Wendat territory, Stravinsky's Nightingale in a twenty-seven ton pool, and Wagner's Ring cycle via the infamous, sixteen-million-dollar Metropolitan Opera production. The final case study offers the first interrogation of Lepage's twenty-first century 'auto-adaptations' of his own seminal texts, The Dragons' Trilogy and Needles & Opium. Though aimed at academic readers, this book will also appeal to practitioners given its focus on performance-making, adaptation and intercultural collaboration.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.