Trap Door is featured in The Mercurian, A Theatrical Translation Review
Trap Door Theater is honored to be mentioned in the new issue of The Mercurian , A Theatrical Translation Review. Special thanks to translator Jozefina Komporaly for her commentary on last season’s virtual work of Decomposed Theater by Matei Visniec. We appreciate editor Adam Versenyi for including us in the latest volume!
In this imaginative series, Trap Door decomposes and recomposes Visniec’s modular text into a new structure, finding novel synergies between individual scenes and reinterpreting a timeless play written under the hallmark of open dramaturgy for the here and now. This new adaptation boldly explores the play’s inherent modularity and permutability, and the dialogues thus established between the various scenes and episodes offer a multitude of readings and associations.
Jozefina Komporaly, The Mecurian
Decomposed Theatre
by Decomposed Theatre translator, Jozefina Komporaly
This play was translated for Trap Door Theatre’s unique stage adaptation of Visniec’s “dialogic spectacle of monologues,” directed and performed live on Zoom by an international ensemble and relayed online in 8 episodes between 3 December 2020 and 4 February 2021.