"Les traductions" du texte theatral. Bashir Lazhar entre auteure, traducteurs et professionnels de la mise en scene

In this article, we will describe the series of textual manipulations that allowed to move from a theatrical text in French, written by a Quebec writer, to its Italian stage reading during a festival held in Rome in October 2011. This passage implied many different manipulation: an interlingual translation (Jakobson) from French to Italian was followed by its intralingual revision by the actor and director; lastly, via an intersemiotic translation, the latter written version was read-staged before an audience. Despite the presence of various semiotic systems, despite the passage of the text from an interpreter to another, the act is in many ways the same: an act of translation, based on the same mental operations. Each professional (translators, directors, actors) translates; each translation has its specificity.