The poetics of a transcultural adaptation in the process of directing the play Razor in the Flesh by Plinio Marcos (1967)

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dc.contributor.advisor Barnes, Hazel
dc.contributor.postgraduate Barroso de Oliveira, Anderson
dc.date.accessioned 2018-12-05T08:04:55Z
dc.date.available 2018-12-05T08:04:55Z
dc.date.created 2009/05/18
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description Dissertation (MA (Drama))--University of Pretoria, 2018.
dc.description.abstract This study takes place in the investigation of two aspects. The first was the process of translation and adaptation of the play Razor in the Flesh (1967) by the Brazilian playwright Plinio Marcos to South African English and its respective context, followed by a free adaptation for the context of 2017 in Pretoria. The second aspect was a reflection of the staging process of the same play from the director's perspective in a transcultural environment. Regarding the translation process, I sought in Walter Benjamin�s theory of translation, a translational methodology that could extract the essence of the text, that is, translate, transfer the poetic power of the original work to the new language and to the new context. In parallel with Benjamin's translational theory, I sought in Pavis the understanding of the translational process of the theatrical text and the cultural shift of signs from the original work to the arrival context and the embodied performance. It was a process coordinated from the foreign director�s perspective who seeks to give the conceptual references of his practical work through reflections and quotes from various theorists and theatre directors that served as a basis for research. It is a theoretical and reflexive accompaniment of the phases that made up the staging process of Razor in the Flesh (2017).
dc.description.degree MA (Drama)
dc.description.department Drama
dc.identifier.citation Barroso de Oliveira, A 2018, The poetics of a transcultural adaptation in the process of directing the play Razor in the Flesh by Plinio Marcos (1967), MA (Drama) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67780>
dc.identifier.other S2018
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67780
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher University of Pretoria
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dc.title The poetics of a transcultural adaptation in the process of directing the play Razor in the Flesh by Plinio Marcos (1967)
dc.type Dissertation


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