WHOSE ADAPTATION IS IT, ANYWAY?(approaches to adaptations)(Brief Article)

Those who've never tried may think that adapting a classic play is simply like updating grandma's recipe for a 21st-century palate. But it's a lot more than that: Sometimes writers adapt to critique an original text, at other times, to celebrate it, and still other times, to perform a complete overhaul.

Then, throw into the mix the fact that many adaptations are also translations of classic plays in other tongues. One might wonder, then, if translation/adaptations are really (pace Gump) like a box of chocolate: you never know who you're gonna get. This season, audiences around ...

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