Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia
Subtitle: poetics - ethics - politics
By: André Bastian
Contributors: Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946-; Honegger, Gitta, 1942- translator
Series: Transpositionen : australische Studien zur deutschen Literatur, Philosophie und Kultur -- Band 9; Transpositionen -- Bd. 9.
Publisher: Röhrig Universitätsverlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: St. Ingbert
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9783861105992
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Dramatic production; Theater; Production and direction
Description: "The study at hand ... presents the outcomes of a research project stretching over several years. They are provided in three differents parts, consisting of two written discussions on "The Aesthetics (or Poetics) of Staging a Play" ... and "The Ethics and Politics of Staging a Play" ... and two sets of recordings of the 2011 Melbourne production of Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas that was an integral part of this research project in the field of Theatre Performance ... The research objective that was outlined at the beginning of the project is best summarised in the initial title: "Recovering Jelinek for the English-Speaking Stage -- Problems of Inter-Cultural Transfer and Theatrical Strategies to Fill the 'Gap of Translation'"--Page 9.
Notes: Accompanying DVDs contain recordings of the 2011 Melbourne production of Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas ("Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Jackie"), one of the full production (DVD 1), the other of selected sections shot from a closer angle, to show more details of the actors' work onstage (DVD 2). The Melbourne production at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre ran June 8-July 2, 2011, and was directed by André Bastian; the cast consisted of Dion Mills, Melodie Reynolds and Andrea Swifte. The version performed was translated by Gitta Honegger.

Accompanying DVDs: PAL; all regions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-368)