Marées

Après avoir vécu un épisode douloureux, Mara, désemparée, fuit en direction de la mer, laissant toute sa vie derrière elle. Elle arrive dans une station balnéaire en fin de saison. La ville se vide et Mara traîne sa solitude et son chagrin dans les rues désertes et sur les plages oubliées. Elle survit. Lorsque l'argent vient à manquer, elle trouve un job dans une des rares boutiques restées ouvertes. Les mois passent, le quotidien se pose et, tandis qu'elle effleure de nouveau une certaine forme de joie, le passé la rattrape. Mélange singulier d'intimité et de pudeur, Marées brosse un puissant portrait de femme, dans un style sensuel et imagé. Sara Freeman signe un premier roman d'une grande poésie, largement salué par la critique américaine.

This collection provides the first full-length investigation of the oeuvre of one of Britain's leading dramatists : Timberlake Wertenbaker. By considering the polyglot playwright's theatre from translations and adaptations to new plays as a dynamic continuum of "translations and transformations", Maya Roth and Sara Freeman create an intriguing, focused frame for understanding Wertenbaker's work as distinctly cross-cultural, theatrically rich, and intertextual, providing a prescient case study of the translational turn emerging in international theatre today. The contributors investigate translation theory and practice through Wertenbaker's diverse linguistic and genre translations - from French, ancient Greek, and Italian to English, and from myth, history, classics, fairytale, and literature to the stage. Interrelated chapters by scholars and artists from varied countries, language traditions, and disciplines use performance studies, comparative literature, feminist theory, and cultural anthropology to position Wertenbaker's theatre as a critical nexus for analyzing - and imagining - cross-historical dialogues with contemporary audiences and our plural legacies. Thanks to its substantive engagement with the ethics, theories, and collaborative practices of theatrical translation and adaptation more broadly, and its equally rigorous examination of Wertenbaker's hybridic politics and poetics, this collection can serve as a useful resource for scholars and artists, both.