Theatre Library Association
SYMPOSIUM III
Bruno Walter Auditorium
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
(directions) (TO BE LINKED)
Friday, May 22, 2009
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Detonating the Classics?:
Radical Adaptations
and Textual Reinterpretation
Experimental directors, innovative designers, and
translators/adapters have approached the classical repertory as fertile ground
for reinvention. Do performing artists have an ethical responsibility to
respect the integrity of original texts? Are these texts sacred –
or do they function as minefields for subsequent generations, waiting to be
excavated to reveal new meanings and fresh interpretations?
How have performing arts libraries and archives supported contemporary
deconstructions of the classics – and how might they continue in the
future? Do these collections actually
serve as keepers of the flame or as co-conspirators? Is the ultimate
result detonation or de-notation?
Please join the Theatre Library Association for our third Symposium: an
interdisciplinary dialogue between librarians and archivists with cutting-edge
practitioners, featuring live demonstrations of illuminating scenes.
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