Stephen Haff | Still Waters in a Storm
Good Life Project
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Translating a Book Into a Dialogue
The 400 year old novel became the vessel for the stories of these children and their teacher. So that's where the shift happened, from we're translating this book in our own way to we have a story to tell. The collaboration between cervantes and these kids is what is on stage. That's what they show to people. They have a scene in the play where they debate a word choice in translation. In the middle of that whipping scene, the the abusive owner, stops the action of the play, and i actually, i play that part. I'm the abusive owner in that scene, and i stop and i ask them about one particular choice in translation. And the group reacts
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