{"product_id":"opheliamachine-9781350398818","title":"Opheliamachine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOphelia's story in a way you've never heard it before, and seven more ways as well.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOphelia is trapped, stuck inside the machinery that has created her consciousness, fighting to be heard. Hamlet, overwhelmed by the ceaseless flood of media, mindlessly watches TV, consuming a mish-mash of beauty and horror; a daily soup of innocence and violence. The two of them hopelessly confined, and separated by the Atlantic Ocean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA polemic response to Heiner Mueller's \u003ci\u003eHamletmachine, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOpheliamachine \u003c\/i\u003eis a postmodern tale of love, sex and politics in a fragmented world of confused emotions and global, virtual sexuality. Since its premiere in 2013, Magda Romanska's celebrated experimental play has been performed and studied around the world, with each culture and language feeding into and responding to \u003ci\u003eOpheliamachine\u003c\/i\u003e's collage of modern existence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edited collection brings together eight different translations of the play, offering English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Romanian and Polish language interpretations of Romanska's original text. Along with two introductory essays, these different versions of \u003ci\u003eOpheliamachine\u003c\/i\u003e provide academics, artists and teachers the opportunity to study a fascinating intersection of Shakespeare, translation, adaptation, feminism and avant-garde theatre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMagda Romanska\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, dramaturg, and theatre scholar. She is a professor of theatre at Emerson College, in Boston, MA and principal researcher at metaLAB (at) Harvard. As a playwright, she is a recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship, the Mass Council Artist Fellowship for Dramatic Writing, the Apothetae and Lark Theatre Playwriting Fellowship from the Time Warner Foundation, and PAHA Creative Arts Prize. Her play, \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Times of Stephen Hawking\u003c\/i\u003e was developed at the Lark Theatre and presented at the Roundabout Theatre Reverb Festival, and at Queens Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. \u003ci\u003eLife Is Elsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e received a production at the Speakeasy Theatre Company in Boston. Her popular writing appeared in \u003ci\u003eBig Think\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Reed Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe LA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, PBS, and \u003ci\u003eThe Cosmopolitan Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught at Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, and Cornell University. She's a graduate of Stanford, and of Cornell's doctoral program.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50500902060306,"sku":"9781350398818","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0cfeb575-1ba1-495b-89f9-1f05aad07bd1.jpg?v=1730757496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/opheliamachine-9781350398818","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}