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In our postmodernist culture, where narrative structures are fragmented, theatre substitutes for ‘the marketplace’ and its various contributors become subsumed in the whole. In this context, the author is not so much ‘dead’ (Barthes, 1977) as indivisible from the totality, her/his personal strategy — the text — becoming one strand, merely, among many.
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All play quotations are from the manuscripts of my adaptations of Blood Wedding and Vassa Zhelesnova.
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MacDonald, J. (1998). Adaptation and the Drama Student. In: McCullough, C. (eds) Theatre Praxis. New Directions in Theatre. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26996-9_7
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