Aleks Sierz
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At the start of 1955, the British critic Kenneth Tynan began an article, which was published in the Observer newspaper under the title “Convalescence”, about his country’s new drama, by saying: “Night...
This paper explores how patriarchal power relations construct the idea of “nature” in Athena Farrokhzad’s Morals According to Medea (Moral enligt Medea, 2022), an adaptation of Euripides’ classic play...
Appropriation is a creative and artistic practice in which the writer reworks, re-imagines, and rewrites a canonical source text. William Shakespeare’s plays have been an important foundation for expl...
Toni Morrison’s Desdemona (2012) lends a critical twist to William Shakespeare’s Othello (1604) by reimagining the source text through monologues, dialogues, and songs of the silenced characters in Ot...
Howard Barker is a playwright known for his unconventional approach to the theatre with his own dramatic concept, the Theatre of Catastrophe, which challenges the traditional boundaries of reality and...
This study examines the phenomenon of alienation in two different theatre adaptations of Kafka’s The Metamor phosis. The adaptations examined in this study are Metamorphosis, written and directed by S...
Caryl Churchill is a distinguished playwright of the twentieth and twenty-first-century English theatre, and with her oeuvre, it is very difficult to describe her with the words she deserves since her...
Inclusion of non-colonial language in theatre spaces is just one of the tools Indigenous playwrights can wield as a tool to make space for the inclusion of Indigenous voices. The Cree playwright Tomso...
Çağan Irmak’s 2023 Netflix series Yaratılan (Creature) is an adaptation inspired by Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein. Çağan Irmak reappropriates the novel into the nineteenth-century Ottoman con...