Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice

Sophie Stevens

Uruguayan Theatre in Translation
Theory and Practice

Sophie Stevens

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Carlos Maggi (1922-2015), Uruguayan playwright

Raquel Diana (1960-), Uruguayan playwright

Estela Golovchenko (1963-), Uruguayan playwright

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8 October 2022 • 212pp

ISBN: 978-1-781883-11-2 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99

ISBN: 978-1-781883-14-3 (paperback, forthcoming)

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Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens here examines Uruguayan theatre in motion, through translation, as an innovative and creative way of engaging with national theatre. Focussing on six major plays and playwrights with international appeal and significance, although they are not yet widely known in the UK, the study contextualises these works and proposes effective theoretical and practical frameworks for translating theatre.

The volume includes three performance-ready translations:

The Library/La biblioteca by Carlos Maggi

Dancing Alone Every Night/Bailando sola cada noche by Raquel Diana

Ready or Not/Punto y coma by Estela Golovchenko

Sophie Stevens is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her research project investigates the work of Latin American women dramatists in order to explore links between activism, performance, digital networking and translation.

See news item: Creating Connections through Theatre from Uruguay (8 July 2023)

Reviews:

‘A welcome and much needed contribution to Uruguayan theatre studies and translation... Stevens’ translations are thoughtfully crafted, beautifully articulated, clear, and amply tested for the stage. They reveal the careful and meticulous work of a researcher who has investigated thoroughly the context, formal aspects of language use, rhetorical devices, and style of the target text in collaboration with playwrights, actors, directors, scholars and students in workshops, rehearsals, table readings and seminars. Virtually unknown to most English audiences, the translated plays included in this book are true gems and will be of great interest to theater scholars, students, and practitioners. Through juxtaposing analysis and translation of theater in one study, Stevens pioneers dialogue between the fields of Uruguayan theater and translation studies in a book that will hold great appeal to theater scholars, translators, students and practitioners.’ — The Mercurian 14 November 2023
‘Overall, this book is exemplary in offering insight into the decisions made by translators alongside directors, playwrights, and actors. The focus on praxis and self-reflection constitutes a novel and creative way of engaging with Uruguayan theatre as both national and transnational. The practical and theoretical considerations proposed by Stevens will be of use to translators, dramatists, and theatre scholars alike.’ — Cara Levey, Modern Language Review 2024, 119.1, 167-69 (full text online)
‘This volume already fills a need because there are never enough translations of plays from Spanish into English for academic and practical purposes such as research, teaching and staging. Beyond fulfilling a basic need, however, Stevens’ book explores a deeper inquiry into the act of translation by linking it to thematic, cultural and dramatic concepts. For Stevens the process of translation practice is not merely technical; rather it is a methodology that informs scholarship on the dramatic text in new ways.’ — Sarah M. Misemer, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 100.5, 2023, 773-75 (full text online)

Contents:

ix-xii	Acknowledgements Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.3	Cite
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1-20	Introduction: Uruguayan Theatre in London Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.4	Cite
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21-48	Frames of Analysis for Theatre Translation: A Dramaturgical Study of M’hijo el dotor and La biblioteca Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.5	Cite
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49-90	The Library by Carlos Maggi Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.6	Cite
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91-116	Conceptualising Distance and Proximity in Theatre Translation: Analysing Afterlife in Pedro y el capitán and Bailando sola cada noche Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.7	Cite
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117-134	Dancing Alone Every Night by Raquel Diana Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.8	Cite
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135-158	Form and Theatre Translation: Analysing the Folkloric in El Herrero y la Muerte and Flashbacks in Punto y coma Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.9	Cite
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159-182	Ready or Not by Estela Golovchenko Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.10	Cite
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183-190	Conclusion: the Role of the Theatre Translator: Interpret, Intervene, Instruct Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.11	Cite
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191-196	Bibliography Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.12	Cite
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197-200	Index Sophie Stevens doi:10.2307/j.ctv33b9pbd.13	Cite
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Stevens, Sophie, Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice, Transcript, 15 (Legenda, 2022)

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Uruguayan Theatre in TranslationTheory and Practice

Sophie Stevens

Uruguayan Theatre in Translation
Theory and Practice