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TRANSLATION AND THEATRE SYMPOSIUM

With presentations by Angela Tarantini and David Mence, Consuelo Martinez Reyes, Henry Méra and Michael Bula.

Saturday 26 September 2015

Boyd Community Centre, Melbourne

At this event organised in association with VITS (Victorian Interpreting and Translation Services), AALITRA hosted three presentations from translators, academics and theatre professionals discussing various issues and questions surrounding translation and theatre.

 

ANGELA TARANTINI & DAVID MENCE

Photo by Di Cousens

Photo by Di Cousens

Angela Tarantini is translating into Italian some plays by award-winning Australian playwright, David Mence; together they explained how their two voices merge to create a new work and how non-verbal elements influence translation.

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CONSUELO MARTINEZ REYES 

Photo by Di Cousens

Photo by Di Cousens

Consuelo Martínez Reyes is in the process of translating and editing the unpublished works of Puerto Rican playwright and poet Victor Fragoso; she passed on some of his ideas and aesthetics, relevant to translators working in multi-lingual communities today.

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MICHAEL BULA & HENRY MÉRA 

With years of experience at Melbourne French Theatre, Michael Bula & Henry Méra shared practical methods of presenting plays in one language so that they may be understood by an audience speaking a different language.

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Photo by Di Cousens

Photo by Di Cousens

 

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