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(Re)mediating the modernist novel: Katie Mitchell's live cinema work

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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:08 authored by Benjamin FowlerBenjamin Fowler
British director Katie Mitchell’s intermedial experimentation in ‘Live Cinema’ forces film, literature and performance into collision. This chapter examines a body of work inaugurated by Mitchell’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves (National Theatre, 2006). It investigates the formative influence of the modernist novel on the Live Cinema genre, arguing that intermedial experimentation offers contemporary performance makers ways of exploring subjectivity akin to cross-media experiments in modernist literature. It also documents the influence of The Wooster Group on Mitchell’s thinking as she began to adapt Woolf’s writing for the stage. The chapter culminates in a reading of Mitchell’s free adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Berlin Schaubühne, 2009), reconfigured from the point of view of the servant Kristin and organised as an exploration of ‘consciousness’.

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  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

97-119

Pages

357.0

Book title

Contemporary approaches to adaptation

Place of publication

Basingstoke

ISBN

9781137597823

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Kara Reilly

Legacy Posted Date

2016-07-12

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