Translation Out Loud: Performing Translations to an Audience

How will the audience receive a text whose cultural context they might know little about? How might they receive foreign words they don’t readily understand? And how to best cultivate a captive audience? In this panel, theater translation experts will discuss how to best convey the nuances of translated texts through performance.

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Panelists

Dr. Almiro Andrade is a Black Queer Latinx actor, director, playwright, dramaturg, and theater translator. Both as a practitioner and as an academic researcher/lecturer, their approach sees all stages of theatre-making as acts of translation, and their practice champions the production of international pieces in the most diverse settings across the globe since 2000. Catherine Boyle is Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at King’s College London. She has directed the Out of the Wings Theatre Translation Project and Collective since 2008 and is a theater translation practitioner and researcher.