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D'Arcy, Geraint 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-6005
(2017)
From page to stage: Adapting Vermilion Sands.
Foundation: The International review of science fiction, 128.
ISSN 0306-4964
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Abstract
In May 2015, as part of an academic practice as research project, I produced an adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s *Vermilion Sands* (1971). The project was tied in with a production module at the University of South Wales, had a budget of less than a thousand pounds, a cast of sixteen and only four weeks to prepare. Performed to an invited, private audience, *Vermillion* was intended as a scenographic experiment in theatrical adaptation practices but it also became an exploration of Science Fiction writing in theatre. This paper explores as a case study some of the dramaturgical and scenographic decisions made when adapting the New Wave Science Fiction of J. G. Ballard’s *Vermillion Sands* (1971) for the stage. It examines how theatre SF sits between literary and cinematic definitions of SF and argues how SF in theatre is not just a matter of applying an iconographic skin of SF design, but must become a narrativized element of the drama.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | science fiction,theatre,scenography,adaptation,practice informed research,drama,philosophy of technology,material feminism,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2020 00:01 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2022 11:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75087 |
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