Getting the most out of collaborative translation: an Australian-Italian case study

Tarantini, Angela Tiziana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7142-7739 2016. Getting the most out of collaborative translation: an Australian-Italian case study. La main de Thôt (4)

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Abstract

The number of scholars who venture into collaborative projects in theatre translation is increasing, whether process-oriented (MARINETTI & ROSE, 2013) or product-oriented (as in the case of PEGHINELLI, 2012). More and more translators collaborate with the playwright, with actors and/or directors to produce a ‘performable’ piece, or to analyse the process of translation. With this article I illustrate a different and more experimental approach to collaboration in theatre translation. Following Kershaw et al.’s and Nelson’s theories on Practice as Research (KERSHAW, MILLER, WHALLEY, LEE, & POLLARD, 2011; NELSON, 2013), I engaged in a collaboration project where the rehearsal room served as testing ground for the translator’s theories, and not just as site for a further round of revisions of the target text for the performance, or for a collective translation, or for an ethnographic process-oriented study. This kind of collaboration with actors and director allows the translator/researcher to test the hypothesis s/he formulates while approaching the translation of the play text from a theoretical point of view, whereas the actors provide the practical component of the research. This empirical approach turned the rehearsal room into a kind of laboratory; and since the actors were unaware of what the translator wants to elicit, the result was unlikely to be biased.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Modern Languages
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 February 2022
Date of Acceptance:	2016
Last Modified:	08 May 2023 12:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/147012

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