Interview with Simon Breden
Scholar-translator Simon Breden offers a brief summary of the plot of Black Tenderness and describes the choices he made in translating it without over-domesticating it by ‘keeping a reflection of its Spanish origin’. Breden’s strategy involved concentrating on the way thought is structured in Spanish, in the belief that ‘the way a character speaks is the way a character thinks’: this often meant mapping the syntactical structure of sentences in Spanish onto the English, while all the time attempting to stay away from the idea of the literal.
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Black Tenderness
Interview with Tara Robinson Interview with Steffan Donnelly Interview with Simon Breden Interview with Will Irvine Interview with Caroline Wildi Extracts from Black Tenderness :
‘You don’t mess around with the skies…’ Extracts from Black Tenderness :
‘Sorry, is this contemporary theatre?’ Extracts from Black Tenderness : ‘I have loved you for sixteen years, you moron!’ Black Tenderness : Post Show Discussion
Gliwice Hamlet
Gliwice Hamlet : Post Show DiscussionExtracts from Gliwice Hamlet : The Cow Monologue Extracts from Gliwice Hamlet : ‘There is no Father’s Ghost so there is no Hamlet’ Extracts from Gliwice Hamlet : ‘What an incredible device this TV is!’ Interview with Kudzi Hudson and Tonderai Munyevu Interview with Bryce Lease and Aneta Mancewicz (Part 2) Interview with Bryce Lease and Aneta Mancewicz (Part 1) Interview with Arne Pohlmeier
The Snakes
Extract from The Snakes : ‘I am Guarding this Horrible House’ Extract from The Snakes : Nancy’s Monologue Extract from The Snakes : ‘I remain exact, rigorous and cold, Nancy’ Interview with Nadège Adlam Interview with Kélina Gotman (Part 2) Interview with Kélina Gotman (Part 1) Interview with Daniel Goldman
Discussion
Gliwice Hamlet : Post Show DiscussionBlack Tenderness : Post Show Discussion
Interviews
Interview with Nadège Adlam Interview with Kélina Gotman (Part 2) Interview with Kélina Gotman (Part 1) Interview with Daniel Goldman Interview with Tara Robinson Interview with Steffan Donnelly Interview with Simon Breden Interview with Will Irvine Interview with Caroline Wildi Interview with Kudzi Hudson and Tonderai Munyevu Interview with Bryce Lease and Aneta Mancewicz (Part 2) Interview with Bryce Lease and Aneta Mancewicz (Part 1) Interview with Arne Pohlmeier
Scenes
Extract from The Snakes : ‘I am Guarding this Horrible House’ Extract from The Snakes : Nancy’s Monologue Extract from The Snakes : ‘I remain exact, rigorous and cold, Nancy’ Extracts from Black Tenderness :
‘You don’t mess around with the skies…’ Extracts from Black Tenderness :
‘Sorry, is this contemporary theatre?’ Extracts from Black Tenderness : ‘I have loved you for sixteen years, you moron!’ Extracts from Gliwice Hamlet : The Cow Monologue Extracts from Gliwice Hamlet : ‘There is no Father’s Ghost so there is no Hamlet’ Extracts from Gliwice Hamlet : ‘What an incredible device this TV is!’