Theatre in Translation Part 3: The New Play
The translator is a traveller between words and worlds and cultures. Someone who, in the simplest terms, finds stories in other places and brings them back to us, as narratives that are new and unknown or, perhaps, tell our stories in different ways. Translators open imaginations to and of other worlds, by demonstrating that there are ways of seeing and telling and thinking the world that are not ours. Of course, this process is always mediated, initially through the experience of the translator, or the person who has found the story to be brought across, positioned between the two ‘banks of the river’ as French thinker Jacques Derrida had it.
