Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre [Hardcover]

The volume explores the risks and pitfalls of experimental theatre projects. It examines a full range of theatrical processes ranging from translation and adaptation to staging and performance from a transnational and transhistorical scope.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.The volume explores the risks and pitfalls of experimental theatre projects. It examines a full range of theatrical processes ranging from translation and adaptation to staging and performance from a transnational and transhistorical scope.Mar?a Chouza-Calo is Professor of Spanish at Central Michigan University.

Esther Fern?ndez is Associate Professor of Iberian Studies at Rice University.

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