Description:
Barnette offers her book as a resource for those who seek to understand and participate in the process of adaption for the stage--that is, producing a stage piece based upon another medium. Adapturgy offers both practical and theoretical tools for understanding and creating new work.
Brief description: Jane Barnette is an assistant professor and the director of graduate studies in the theatre department at the University of Kansas. She serves as regional vice president for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and conference planner for the Theory and Criticism Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She has published essays in the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and Text and Performance Quarterly and in the edited collection The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy.
Review Quotes:
"Thoughtful and accessible in its approach, Adapturgy is more than a 'how-to' book about adaptation dramaturgy; it presents a compelling argument for understanding dramaturgy and adaptation as related and mutually informing processes."--Lindsay Cummings, Theatre Topics
"Jane Barnette's Adapturgy is a welcome addition to adaptation and dramaturgy scholarship that highlights aspects of theory and practice previously overlooked or little analyzed in either field. Structured in three parts, with invaluable material on interviews and program notes the writer generously shares with her readers in appendices, the book is useful to a multitude of readers."--Maria Mytilinaki Kennedy, Theatre History Studies "Adapturgy is a razor-sharp introduction to adaptation as dramaturgy in action. Best of all, Barnette consistently works to broaden our sense of the potential for theory and practice to inform one another."--Geoff Proehl, Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility: Landscape and Journey "This book is the first to tackle literary adaptation for theatre from a dramaturgical perspective, providing an up-to-the-minute treatment of a still-blossoming area of theatre practice. I am eager to use it for my next seminar in dramaturgy."--Felicia Hardison Londré, author, "Love's Labour's Lost" Critical Essays "Unique, informative, exceptionally well organized and presented, "Adapturgy: The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation" is an especially recommended and extraordinary addition to professional, community and academic library Theatre/Cinema/TV reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists."--Mary Cowper, Midwest Book Review "Adapturgy is a worthy addition to the library of certain performance-makers. . . . Those not regularly engaged in such work will find this book helps them 'understand and participate in the process of adaptation for the stage, ' as Barnette writes in the introduction."--CHOICE, A publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries