Sergei Paradjanov's "Color of Pomegranates" (1968) avoids biographical imperatives altogether, transforming the verses of the 18th-century troubadour Sayat Nova into surrealist, folkloric tableaus as striking as they are abstract.
But the endlessly resourceful Meinhold promptly parlayed his storytelling gifts into another kind of fame altogether — he transformed himself from a religious polemicist into a romance novelist.
Hence, many monarchies especially in Europe—have dispensed with coronations altogether, or transformed them into simpler inauguration or benediction rites that better reflect the secular nature of those states.
She dives completely into her roles, transforming altogether into a trashy hitchhiker, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, a Renaissance Madonna, a battered woman, a nightmarish clown.
The tone of the novel changes in Part 2. What has started as a spirited and intriguing South African bildungsroman is transformed into something altogether more romantic, and perhaps more predictable.
Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, and Horst P. Horst took a similar approach with magazine portraiture, and Richard Avedon transformed the portrait altogether, in the fifties, by distilling the frame to nothing but his legendary subjects — James Baldwin, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote.
And everywhere an intensification of the dialogue and an altogether higher level of imaginative writing transformed the older work.
Indeed, a key question moving forward will be how research centres can develop sustainability strategies that are contextually-sensitive, allowing creative options for existing infrastructure to be translated or transformed before it is altogether discarded.
But, this month, the theatre is being transformed for a different purpose altogether.
