Dickens and Adaptation symposium brings literary scholars, theatre practitioners and adapters together to discuss different critical and creative engagements with Dickens’s novels and dramatic works from the nineteenth century to the present day. It approaches adaptation through various theoretical lenses or praxes: as a critical interpretation of the literary texts, a form of readerly attitude, a creative re-envisioning of the original texts, and as transnational responses to the texts. Coinciding with the performance of one of his best-known novels, Great Expectations, in Hong Kong, this symposium also provides an opportunity for the audience to learn about the creative processes involved in adapting and translating the work for theatre in the city.
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Programme
2.00 Welcome
Klaudia Lee (City University of Hong Kong)
2.10-3.30 Panel I: Dickens in Context
Charles Dickens: Professional Playwright and Theatrical Collaborator
Joanna Hofer-Robinson (Lecturer, University College Cork)
Charles Dickens and Transnational Imaginaries
Klaudia Lee (Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong)
“I call him a savage”: Adapting to Dickens on Race
Grace Moore (Associate Professor, University of Otago)
Moderator: Sharin Schroeder (National Taipei University of Technology)
3:30-3.45 Break
3:45-5 Panel II: Adaptation, Translation, and Performance
Dickens on Stage: A Personal Perspective
Jonathan Holloway (Writer and director in theatre and broadcasting)
Adapting Dickens for the Stage: The Experience of Reinterpreting Great Expectations for Present-Day Hong Kong
Peter Jordan (Theatre director, composer, writer and actor)
Adapting Dickens’s Great Expectations into Cantonese
Wong Kwok Kui (Associate Professor, Baptist University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Jessica Valdez (University of East Anglia)
End of Event
Note: All times as indicated above are HK time. For international participants, please check your local time zone via thetimenow.com or other time zone converter.
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