Profusely illustrated, Reza Abdoh is a major monograph on one of the most influential theater artists of the latter-20th century. The book contains new essays on Abdoh's works in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, conversations with his friends and colleagues, scripts of Abdoh's plays, and contemporary reviews.

This book is situated in the breach opened up by recent debates on inherited notions of text, language, and translation that followed the emergence of new technologies. It examines two works of contemporary dance, Marie Chouinard’s Jérôme Bosch: Le Jardin des Délices (2016) and Mathieu Geffré’s Froth on the Daydream (2018), as examples of intermedial translation. Conceptualising translation through the lens of theatrical dance allows us to see the translation process as a creative, co...