Full Description
Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the framework of modernity in the Asia-Pacific. It is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.
Contents
Introduction: Regional Modernities in the Global Era PART I: CHANGING FORMS OF THEATRE AND DRAMA 1. Modern Australian Drama: Haunted by the Past 2. Modernity and the Self in Singapore: Emily of Emerald Hill 3. Modern Drama and Postcolonial Modernity in Indonesia 4. Hirata Oriza's Tokyo Notes and the New Modern PART II: MOBILE PERFORMANCE AND FLUID IDENTITIES 5. Solid and Liquid Modernities in Regional Australia 6. Staging Indonesian Modernity After Suharto 7. 'Youth is not the Only Thing That Passes at Sonic Speed': Speed and Private Lives in Okada Toshiki's The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise 8. Dramaturgy of the Liquid: Cargo Kuala Lumpur-Singapore PART III: BEYOND REGIONALITY: THE ASIA-PACIFIC'S GLOBAL REACH 9. Australian Adaptations: The European Turn 10. Performing Liquid Modernity: Chay Yew's Visible Cities in Singapore 11. Performing 'Authentic Indonesia' Transculturally 12. Kawamura Takeshi's Theatre and the Spectacle of Adaptation PART IV: REGIONAL FLOWS 13. Cultural Exchange, Arts Festivals and Markers of Modernity Conclusion
