DeWitt's characters are caught up in several translation projects, ranging from the standard linguistic variety to the more delicate deciphering of interpersonal communications to a quixotic attempt to transform a film into a guide to life.
Mr. FitzGerald has been chairman of the British-listed branch of the company since September 1996, overseeing an attempt to transform a company that, he acknowledged, was once viewed as being slower to change course than a supertanker.
"We need a complete examination of this attempt to transform a political culture very different from our own into a democracy -- a form of government never before seen in those ancient lands," Mr. Byrd said.
Mr Cameron not only wants to replicate the "big tent" politics of early Blairism, he is also well aware that there are very few Tories who he can trust to be on-message.To an even greater extent than the New Labour "project", this is an attempt to transform a party by a relatively tiny vanguard.
He assembles the suspicions of countless Warren Commission skeptics; provides substantial circumstantial evidence that appears to support one or another theory; and ridicules the dwindling but still significant band of believers in the Warren Commission story, which he sees as a corrupt and politicized attempt to transform a great historical tragedy into a tawdry and trivial crime.
By turns mournful, anxious and serene, and composed with an elegance that echoes the lapidary beauty of Woolf's writing, Mr. Dresher's music is, alas, mostly incidental to this otherwise awkward and inert attempt to transform a literary masterwork into a living work of theater.
The hurricane even spared the first phase of a planned five-year, $13 million public art project here called "Artlantic," scheduled to make its debut on Friday, that is attempting to transform a city that has never offered much in the way of public space beyond the famous Boardwalk.
DreamWorks Theatricals, which made its first attempt to transform a movie property into a Broadway show in 2008 with "Shrek the Musical," is now teaming up with Broadway Across America for DreamWorks's first live family touring show based on its "Madagascar" film series, the two companies announced on Monday.
It will attempt to transform a pilot project on technology transfer into a broader forum on research commercialization.
