Translating for Performance: In Between Voices

In our multicultural city, English is mediated and vocalized through hundreds of languages and belongs to each of those voices. When we translate, we need a material consciousness of those voices, and it is a duty to our context to work with different forms of English, accents, and modalities on stage. These speak to class, ethnicity, belief, difference, assimilation, and urban inventiveness. This workshop explores the concrete and changing ways in which we tackle increasingly urgent questions about the in-betweenness of voice, taking the Out of the Wings Festival as our case study.

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Moderator

Catherine Boyle is Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at King’s College London. She has translated and published widely on Latin American culture, theatre, and performance. Since 2008 she has directed the theatre translation project, Out of the Wings, and since 2012 has been Principal Investigator for Language Acts and Worldmaking.

Presenters

Sophie Stevens is Postdoctoral Researcher on the Translation Acts strand of Language Acts and Worldmaking. Her book on the translation of Uruguayan theatre, including 3 new translations, will be published in early 2021. She has recently been developing research into women’s art and activism in the Southern Cone. William Gregory’s translations have been performed nationally and internationally, including at the Royal Court Theatre, where he is a translator for their international playwriting projects. His translation of Cuzco by Víctor Rodríguez Sánchez, first performed at the 2016 Out of the Wings Festival, premiered at Theatre 503, London, in 2019. Almiro Andrade is an actor and director. He has an MA in Making Plays: Writing and Devising for the Stage at Kingston University (2011), and a PhD from King’s College London, on the translation of Brazilian contemporary drama through devised performance. He is Artistic Associate of Stone Crabs Theatre Company.