Contemporary Drama in Translation

I follow the structure of the source language as I try to find and hear the voices that are speaking to me in the original text.
 

Why German-language drama is so unique, though few people realize it.

Since its beginnings, theatre has been an expression of community. It’s a place for dialogue.
 

This means the translator has to guess what a character would have said if they’d finished the sentence;
 

Many people think of drama as one of several literary genres alongside fiction or poetry. But what does it mean to translate for the stage, for the spoken word? More..

A play by itself is a kind of ‘double-talk’, both present and not present, reality and fiction; it is  written form but actually it is to be spoken.

 

Why German-language drama is so unique, though few people realize it.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought the works of Heiner Müller to the notice of Bengali  theatre directors.