From Page to Stage: Tanika Gupta’s Theatre Adaptation of Jackie Kay’s Memoir Red Dust Road

Abstract

L’adattamento teatrale dell’autobiografia di Jackie Kay dal titolo Red Dust Road (2010), realizzato da Tanika Gupta, ha debuttato al Festival internazionale di Edimburgo nel 2019. La pièce mette in scena la ricerca dell’identità di Kay, figlia naturale di una donna scozzese delle Highlands e di uno studente nigeriano e adottata da una coppia di Glasgow nei primi anni Sessanta. L’articolo si concentra sulle strategie utilizzate da Gupta nella sua riscrittura: inserendo brani dell’opera poetica di Kay, Gupta rende un commovente omaggio alla poetessa, una delle voci più potenti della scrittura femminile nera britannica.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-227

Parole chiave: Tanika Gupta, adaptation, Jackie Kay, Red Dust Road, Black and Asian British women’s writing.

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