Collaboratively Translating Katwiran: A Note on Reason Has its Reason, an English translation of Rolando S. Tinio’s May Katwiran ang Katwiran

• Main Authors: Abad, Ricardo G, Ledesma, Josemaria Ecequiel N, Tolentino, Gabriel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: May Katwiran Ang Katwiran; Rolando S. Tinio; Lehrstrücke; Filipino-English Translation; Asia-Pacific Bond of Theater Schools; Filipino play; Brechtian approach; Ricardo Abad; Cholo Ledesma; Gabriel Tolentino; Language Interpretation and Translation; Theatre and Performance Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/112; http://unitasust.net/volumes/no-1-volume-94/
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This preamble gives an account of how a director and two actors collaborated in translating Rolando S. Tinio’s May Katwiran Ang Katwiran from Filipino to English. Our method was intuitive and inductive, finding the rules of translation as we went along. We first agreed to treat the play as a Lehrstr...