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Document type
Book chapters


Title
Ethical Challenges in Adaptation: Gothic Eurico from Novel to Performance

Participants in the publication
Graça P. Corrêa (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CFCUL

Summary
Although ephemeral, theatre is a site of deep ethical questioning, a place where choices are made by working with our individual emotions and social existences. This chapter reflects upon the ethical-political challenges that were faced during a collective dramaturgical process of “adapting” a literary narrative—Alexandre Herculano’s novel Eurico o Presbítero (Eurico the monk, 1844)—into a theatre performance, staged at Lisbon’s National Theatre (TNDMII) in 2012. A major challenge of this devised theatre process consisted in “translating” the ethical drive of the nineteenth-century Gothic novel for a contemporary audience in the context of Portugal’s ongoing debt crisis within the EU.

Editor(s)
Emer O'Toole, Andrea Pelegrí Kristi, Stuart Young


Institution
CFCUL-Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Where published
Ethical Exchanges in Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Publication Identifiers
ISBN - 9789004346338

Address
Leiden, Netherlands

Publisher
Brill | Rodopi



Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004346376_007
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004346376_007
ISBN - 978-9-004-34633-8

Keywords
Devised Theatre Ethics in Adaptation Baruch Spinoza Brian Massumi Affect theory Alexandre Herculano

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