author and educator
In certain respects, the contexts, aspirations and communicative mechanisms of film and theatre are divergent and their distinctions partially explain why the latter has been somewhat less vigorously challenged on its adaptive practices, but correspondingly also why theatre as a critical discipline has supported, rather than vitally shaped, the advance of adaptation studies.
FRANCES BABBAGE
Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature
Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.
FRANCES BABBAGE
Augusto Boal
Storytelling and ritual enactment are amongst the oldest arts, predating the communication of narrative in written form; thus while a specific adaptation project might yet be taxed with trampling on hallowed, pre-laid, literary ground, theatre itself has authoritative claims as a space historically defined by narrative (re)telling.
FRANCES BABBAGE
Adaptation in Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature
Participation in the creative processes of theatre is the best way to reveal the human being, and through this to understand one's self and one's society.
FRANCES BABBAGE
Augusto Boal
Theatre is at last being reclaimed by those who have been excluded from it and used in their own interests -- yet these interests are not solely theirs, ultimately, since they support a just society and true democracy.
FRANCES BABBAGE
Augusto Boal
All theatre is political -- just as all other activities of human beings are political -- because theatre is not autonomous and must thus decide whose interests it serves.
FRANCES BABBAGE
Augusto Boal