Ingham, Michael Anthony

About the author: Dr. Ingham has B.A and Masters degrees in European Literature and Linguistics from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in English Drama and Literature from the University of Hong Kong. He has been teaching English Studies as a member of the English Department at Lingnan University since 1999. Dr. Ingham is a founder member of Theatre Action, a Hong Kong based drama group that specializes in action research on more literary drama texts. He is also a founding member of Queens’ Café Company and acted in several productions at the Hong Kong Fringe Club, and also participated in a number of Hong Kong Players productions.

Prose Fiction Stage Adaptation as Social Allegory in Contemporary British Drama. Staging Fictions

2004 0-7734-6356-9
This study will argue that a distinction needs to be made between faithful but derivative stage versions of novels in the tradition of Zola's Thérèse Raquin, which aspire only to the status of theatricalised novel, and the autonomous stage transformation of a literary text, creating its own performance dynamic through the reconstruction of literary form and content. For the sake of greater critical clarity the former type will be designated dramatizations and the latter adaptations, despite the lack of consistent differentiation in common theatre discourse.