{"id":1600,"date":"2018-06-19T16:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:38:16","slug":"drama-academic-wins-2018-tapra-early-career-research-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/06\/19\/drama-academic-wins-2018-tapra-early-career-research-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama academic wins 2018 TaPRA Early Career Research Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, has been awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/tapra.org\/winners-tapra-awards-2018\/\">TaPRA<\/a> Early Career Research in Theatre\/Performance Prize 2018 for her work on \u2018Translation, Adaptation, Otherness: \u201cForeignization\u201d in Theatre Practice\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The judges commented that the project &#8216;represents an important \u2013 and deeply timely \u2013 investigation of how theatre in translation can be used to address contemporary tensions between varying cultures and languages by disrupting audiences\u2019 expectations. Identifying and addressing a unique problem in a highly innovative way, the project constitutes a significant expansion of our current knowledge of theatre in translation and adaptation, with major implications for both performance scholarship and practice&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the project here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.translatingtheatre.com\/\">www.translatingtheatre.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre, has been awarded the TaPRA Early Career Research in Theatre\/Performance Prize 2018 for her work on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/06\/19\/drama-academic-wins-2018-tapra-early-career-research-prize\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}