Sam Shepard's drama : Slovene critical reception and translations

Pivač, Eva (author), Blake, Jason Frederick (mentor), Novak, Boris (mentor)

Prvi del magistrskega dela je osredotočen na razvoj dramatike Sama Sheparda. V njem predstavim socio-kulturne dejavnike, ki so vplivali na vznik specifične dramske forme, strukture in tematike. Sam Shepard je s svojim literarnim udejstvovanjem začel kot aktivni član gibanja Off-Off-Broadway, ki je cvetelo v New Yorku v 60ih letih prejšnjega stoletja. Magistrsko delo predstavi gibanje in poda primere iz Shepardovih zgodnjih dram. Ko se je Shepard preselil v Kalifornijo, se je njegov način pisanja spremenil in nastala je slavna "družinska trilogija" (Curse of the Starving Class (1976), Buried Child (1979), and True West (1980)), ki je zasidrana v tradiciji družinskega realizma in vsebuje elemente postmodernizma. Skozi prizmo kritike ameriškega sna sta podrobneje analizirani drami Buried Child in True West. Drugi del predstavi šest Shepardovih dram, ki so jih postavili na slovenskih odrih od 1985 do danes. V delo so vključeni pogovori z ustvarjalci in prevajalci dram, ki osvetlijo ozadje njihovega nastanka in kulturnega prenosa v Slovensko okolje.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: ameriška dramatika, postmodernizem, Off-Off-Broadway, literarna recepcija, prevodi v slovenščino, slovensko gledališče, gledališke uprizoritve, magistrska dela
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [E. Pivač]
• Year: 2016
• Number of pages: 133 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-100294
• UDC: 821.111(73).09-2Shepard S.
• COBISS.SI-ID: 61803874
• Publication date in RUL: 21.03.2018

PIVAČ, Eva, 2016, Sam Shepard’s drama : Slovene critical reception and translations [online]. Master’s thesis. Ljubljana : E. Pivač. [Accessed 31 May 2025]. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=100294

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Dramatika Sama Sheparda

Abstract

The first part of the thesis focuses on Sam Shepard's drama, I specifically illuminates the socio-cultural influences that contributed to the development of a specific dramatic form, structure and themes that are associated to Shepard's plays. Sam Shepard started writing plays as an active member of the Off-Off-Broadway movement which flourished in the 1960s in New York. The thesis presents the movement in greater detail and gives examples from Shepard's early plays. When Shepard moved to California, his mode of writing changed and he produced his famous Family Trilogy (Curse of the Starving Class (1976), Buried Child (1979), and True West (1980)) - a trilogy which is grounded in domestic realism and has postmodernist elements. I analyse Buried Child and True West through the critical view of the American Dream. The second part of the thesis presents six Sam Shepard plays that were performed on Slovene stages from 1985 to the present. Interviews with artists and translators who were actively involved in their production are included in order to shed light on the circumstances that accompanied the performances and their transfer to the Slovene cultural space.