Epic proportions: common pillars of some successful "comedias" in English, and what's next
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Comedia, Translation, Design, Performance, EndingsAbstract
The surge in performances of Spanish Golden Age plays catalyzed by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Spanish Golden Age Season in 2004-05, and the many subsequent productions including those at the Bath Theatre Royal, offered translators, directors, and producers an opportunity to build on those foundations and expand into new territory. In this study, Jeffs explores the essential elements of the comedia performance canon in English, offering foundational principles of successful productions in which she has participated or observed. These elements include the ineffable but critical pillar of tone and the freeing limits of genre; the importance of design; the danger and beauty of contrasts and juxtapositions; and the power of open endings. This study picks out the moments in relatively recent comedia production processes and suggests fresh texts for performance that utilize the best building material for a sustainable future of the comedia in diverse forms.
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