Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

teatro textual

English translation:

textual theatre

Added to glossary by Justin Peterson
Mar 23, 2020 23:51
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Spanish term

teatro textual

Spanish to English Other Cinema, Film, TV, Drama theatre
"Este festival apuesta por su formato breve, con sesiones de tres o cuatro piezas variadas (de un máximo de 30 minutos) de danza, circo, **teatro textual** performances…"

Is there a recognised translation for this?
textual theatre :/ Looks like Spanglish. No other solution?

Theatre people?

Discussion

neilmac Mar 24, 2020:
Spanglish? It doesn't seem like Spanglish to me. A quick search for the query term in quotation marks yields several results, for example "The Textual Theatre of Clare Coulter ", which doesn't jar with me at all. My take is that once you've seen it in use a couple of dozen times, it won't look so odd as it did at first.

Proposed translations

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textual theatre

As I noted in the discussion, I found several examples of usage in a Google search.
For some reason, I find it difficult to post links to Google books, but there are several on the subject.

Thirty Voices in the Feminine: Beauvoir, Ernaux, Yourcenar ...books.google.es › books- Translate this page
Michael Bishop - 1996 - ‎French literature
This textual theatre is intensely dynamic but apparently quite abstract. The poet describes it as follows: il y a mise en scène, des voix, tout un mouvement de ...
Example sentence:

I am principally interested in a form of textual theatre which is strictly linked with the body and music.

The transitory, ephemeral nature of itinerant non-textual theatre means that the performances of these women were not recorded in detail

Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
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Cheers PG, stay safe ;)
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devised/ text-based theatre

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verbatim theatre

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Scripted theatre

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text-based theatre

Diría que el sentido más directo es el de text-based theatre (versus non-text based theatre; "A term meaning that there is no text in a traditional sense, with dialogue written by a dramatist") -https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Pero hay más contrastes que éste. Ver, por ejemplo;


Aside from this project's interest in physical action within text-based theatre, we need at this juncture to acknowledge the critical interrelationship between...
https://books.google.es/books?id=5WhjZIv9YAgC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA...

In our reading of theatre history, we need to consider both text-based theatre and those performances that may not have a text.
https://books.google.es/books?id=YAqn1FCpUd0C&pg=PA22&lpg=PA...

Humphrey Bower reviews intimate, text-based theatre from the Adelaide Festival
https://dailyreview.com.au/adelaide-festival-intimate-text-b...

Many theatre practitioners think of physical theatre as one thing and text-based theatre as another.
https://www.amazon.es/Active-Text-Unlocking-Through-Physical...

Esta versión de la obra original cervantina funde el teatro textual y físico con el flamenco en directo
http://www.revistagodot.com/generos/teatro-fisico/

aplicado a la Interpretación en el Teatro Físico. Complementa su formación académica con Interpretación en el Teatro Textual y en el medio audiovisual.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...

que se hacen entre teatro textual, musical, performativo
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Otro aspecto importante también relacionado con ese teatro “textual” del que huyen estos creadores, es la renuncia a la verisimilitud de la obra teatral que venía dada por la “mímesis” que el drama naturalista pretendía en relación con el espectador
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
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