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Translation & Multilingual Theatre.

Explore play translation, adaptation, surtitles, multilingual rehearsal, and the dramaturgical choices involved in creating performances across languages.

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Translation & Multilingual Theatre

How to Prepare a Script for Surtitling

Preparing a script for surtitling means turning a clean, consistently formatted play text into reviewed cue units that can be translated, rehearsed and operated live. The work…

9 min read
Translation & Multilingual Theatre

Multilingual Theatre: Creating Performances Across Languages

Multilingual theatre is performance practice that uses two or more languages in rehearsal, staging, dramaturgy, or audience access. It matters because language choices shape who can understand,…

21 min read

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