It's 5 years since the first UCL Theatre Translation Forum series. We’re celebrating the anniversary, and the book that emerged from the forum, Adapting Translation for the Stage (Routledge 2017)
Tickets are free but places are limited. Booking is essential via the Bloomsbury Theatre website: https://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/18051
This event is kindly supported by UCL and the Gate Theatre Notting Hill.
Programme:
7 - 7.45 pm: Roundtable: Theatre Translation Futures
Participants from the Theatre Translation Forum discuss their recent work around translations and what lies in the future for translation, in their own field and in wider theatrical contexts.
Confirmed speakers: Kate Eaton, Translator; Tom Littler, Artistic Director, Jermyn Street Theatre; Marta Niccolai, Senior Teaching Fellow, UCL; Jo Royce, Executive Director, Candoco Dance Company.
Chair: Geraldine Brodie, Associate Professor, UCL
7.45 - 8 pm: Refreshments
8 - 8.45 pm: Workshop: Now in Translation
Director Jude Christian leads a workshop exploring performing translation with two actors in a scene from Jeremy Tiang’s translation of Wei Yu-Chia’s A FABLE FOR NOW, winner of the 2014 Taiwanese Literature Award for Playwriting.
8.45 - 9 pm: Discussion
