TY - BOOK ID - 77868966 TI - The theatre of Sabina Berman AU - Berman, Sabina AU - Versényi, Adam PY - 2003 SN - 1429417455 9781429417457 0809324571 9780809324576 080932458X 9780809324583 PB - Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press DB - UniCat KW - Berman, Sabina KW - Translations into English. KW - British And Irish Drama (Dramatic Works By One Author) KW - Drama KW - British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868966 AB - The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays introduces and makes accessible to an English-speaking audience the work of the contemporary Mexican playwright Sabina Berman. The book contains translations of the four plays that established Berman's career: The Agony of Ecstasy, Yankee, Puzzle, and Heresy. An introduction by Adam Versnyi provides a critical assessment of each play, a discussion of the specific problems of translation involved, and placement of Berman's work in the larger Mexican and Latin American context.It is evident that Sabina Berman's theatrical acumen matches the depth of her dramatic design whether it is the sheer variety of techniques from song to staged tableau that appear in The Agony of Ecstasy; the physicalization of what it means to be interrogated and to interrogate in Yankee; the final enigmatic image of a soldier alone on stage, silently aiming his firearm at an undefined threat that potentially emanates from the audience in Puzzle; or the manner in which the family narrates its own "heretical" actions in Heresy. It is the combination of theatrical technique with universal themes of self-definition that cuts across cultures and ultimately makes these plays translatable. ER -