Babbage, F. and O’Connor, T. (2023) Beware the Cat (2018): Adapted from William Baldwin by Frances Babbage, Terry O’Connor and Rachel Stenner, introduced and edited for publication by Frances Babbage and Terry O’Connor. Textual Practice, 37 (7). pp. 1136-1160. ISSN 0950-236X
Abstract
William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat was adapted for performance in 2018 by Frances Babbage, Terry O’Connor and Rachel Stenner, in collaboration with artist Penny McCarthy and the original cast. The full script from this performance is published here. Prefaced by a short commentary which contextualises the project and explains the strategies used to bring it to the stage, the main body of the script incorporates elements of creative documentation that seek to reflect the character of Beware the Cat as a live event. To this end, the co-authors mimic Baldwin’s use of marginalia and annotation in a commentary that runs parallel to the actors’ dialogue; additional visual and textual interventions on the page demonstrate the way in which the original performance consciously explored the power of contrasting expressive languages.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Textual Practice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | adaptation; documentation; performance; storytelling; narration; reading; illustration; marginalia; Baldwin; cats; witchcraft |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Feb 2024 11:07 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2025 01:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0950236x.2023.2229676 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:209660 |