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PAUL RANKIN |
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Since 1998, Paul Rankin has taught Spanish language and translation theory at Queens University, Belfast, where he has just completed doctoral research examining the translation of problematic speech in three twentieth-century Spanish plays. He is the author of a number of articles examining the translation of racism and various aspects of theatre, and has recently completed translations of Alfonso Sastre's ¿Donde estas, Ulalume, donde estas? and Sergi Belbel's Forasters (with Emilio Romero), which will shortly be published by Caos Editorial.
Plays by Paul Rankin
Reader by the Hour | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #57499 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Jose Sanchis Sinisterra | |||||
Synopsis: | An intellectual down on his luck is employed to read novels to the blind daughter of a rich man. The texts by Durrell, Lampedusa, Conrad, Flaubert, Schnitzler and Rulfo he reads to her begin to uncover secrets both would prefer to keep hidden. Yet neither of them can see clearly what is occurring. . . . A game of relationships thus develops between the three characters, where the reader becomes a battlefield where father and daughter can fight their wars. The ending, however, remains open: the readers departure closes the play but not the conflicts between the characters. . . . | |||||
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Seagulls, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #89166 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Josep Pere Peyro | |||||
Synopsis: | Luis is the 'Ed Wood' of pornographic films. Never mind the big screen, his greatest achievements don't even make it straight to video, quite an achievement in the world of porn. His real claim to fame, however, is discovering Edward Eight-Inches, the industry's biggest star. Now, his last chance for artistic posterity is his new masterpiece, Red-Hot Nymphos, where a psychiatrist treating Hamlet and Antigone suggests a series of joint sessions to work through the blockages in their respective treatments. In this absurd comedy by Josep Pere Peyro, Luis and Edward are joined by two cat-fighting pornstars on their way down, and a young black woman who has come to Europe illegally. Fascinated by the last character she played before she left Africa - Nina, from Chekhov's The Seagull - she dreams of being a famous actress but has no idea she is about to step on to the set of an 'adult' film made by an utter failure of a director. . .Together, they shine light into dark places that often trouble us all. | |||||
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Where are you, Ulalume? Where are you? | ||
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| 1st Published: | http://www.caoseditorial.com/libros/ficha.asp?lg=en&id=46 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96797 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling from 17m 7w | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Alfonso Sastre | |||||
Synopsis: | Edgar Allen Poe journeys to Fordham to collect his belongings before returning to Richmond, Virginia, where his first love, recently rediscovered, and the promise of a new life, free from alcohol, awaits him. After making a scheduled stop in Baltimore to take a train to New York, he disappears and then reappears two days later in hospital, delirious, and dying. What happened in those two days? In this play of great tenderness, humour and humanity, one of Spain's greatest living dramatists explores Poe's final odyssey through the city . . . | |||||
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