Adaptation and Translation

What considerations are at play when adapting and translating works for the stage? Content in this section explores work that is adapted from one form into another, or is translated between languages. A great place to start is the Translating the Future series, in which renowned translators from around the world discuss their craft.

The Latest

On Reinventing the Canon

Podcast

On Reinventing the Canon

by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Yizhou Huang, Nathan Davis

30 April 2024

Gore and Myth in Theatre Mitu's (holy) BLOOD

Podcast

Gore and Myth in Theatre Mitu's (holy) BLOOD

by Tjaša Ferme, Rubén Polendo

29 February 2024

Justice for Movie Musicals, or Why the Musical Adaptation of The Color Purple Matters 

Podcast

Justice for Movie Musicals, or Why the Musical Adaptation of The Color Purple Matters

by Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley

14 February 2024

Des Voix...A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation at Playwrights Foundation

Playwrights Foundation

Video

Des Voix...A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation at Playwrights Foundation

Friday 25 May to Sunday 27 May 2012

San Francisco, CA, United States

Playwrights Foundation presents Des Voix...Found in Translation: A Festival of Contemporary French Playwrights in Translation featuring plays by Marion Aubert, Nathalie Fillion, and Samuel Gallet, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Friday 25 May to Sunday 27 May 2012.

Tulips by Sylvia Plath

HowlRound

Theatre Commons

Essay

Tulips by Sylvia Plath

A Video by Taffety Punk

12 April 2012

Translating Laughter

Lisa

Peschel

Essay

Translating Laughter

A Cabaret from the Terezín Ghetto

6 April 2011

Lisa Peschel considers her experience adapting a comedic play written by survivors of the Holocaust and the way in which its humor translates to audiences today.

A group of actors stand in a cluster onstage.

Roma Self-Representation

Independent Theater

Hungary

Series

Roma Self-Representation

The aim of the festival and this series is to present and preserve the values of the theatre and theatrical heroes of the largest ethnic minority in Europe, highlighting the challenges the members of this minority face because of segregative and discriminatory practices—which offend minority rights.