Oregon Shakespeare Festival Plans Shakespeare ‘Translation’ Project
Taylor Mac, Kwame Kwe-Armah Lisa Perterson, lioyd Suh and Naomi Lizuka are among the 36 team of playwrights and darmaturges
has been enlisted by Oregon Shakespeare Festival in a three-year effort to “translate” Shakespeare’s plays
into contemporary modern English, with the goal of making the sometimes
difficult plays more accessible to contemporary audiences.
according to ArtBeat "the group has been given the mandate to translate the 39 plays attributed to Shakespeare, including “Edward III” and “The Two Noble Kinsmen.”
Lue Morgan Douthit,
the festival’s director of literary development and dramaturgy, said in a
statement that though the this is not to tame the literary effect of Shakespeare play the project is as a result of the new yearnings for easy understanding of the play in contemporary context. she also said that fresh voices and perspectives will be considered in these new version
“The writers get the
great joy of tagging along with the world’s best poetic dramatist,” Ms.
Douthit said. “It will be the geekiest exercise ever.”
The Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, in Ashland, Ore., said it may produce one or more
of the modern translations, while also continuing its commitment to
staging original-text versions of all of Shakespeare’s plays between
2015 and 2025.
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