Introduction: For/On Behalf Of.- 1. What? Defining Translation.- 2. How? The Practice and Politics of Translation.- 3. Why? The Case for More Translations.
Margherita Laera is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, UK, and co-Director of the European Theatre Research Network. Margherita is the Online Editor of Theatre Topics and Theatre Journal. She is the author of Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy (Peter Lang, 2013), and the editor of Theatre and Adaptation: Return, Rewrite, Repeat (Bloomsbury, 2014). Margherita is also a theatre translator working with Italian and English. Her research on theatre translation won the Theatre and Performance Research Association’s Early Career Research Prize for 2018.