Research Catalog

Title

Theatre and performance in the Asia-Pacific : regional modernities in the global era / Denise Varney ... [et al.].

Author

Varney, Denise.

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eckersall, Peter.
• Hudson, Chris.
• Hatley, Barbara.

Description

xiii, 253 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book is an analysis of the theatrical imaginative as it manifests in theatre and performance in Australia, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. The sites encompass marked differences in language, performance, history and politics, and variations in the solidity and volatility of their imagined worlds. Recognizing these differences, the book explores contrasts in each nation as it identifies with the region and the cultural interconnections that support a regional identity. While the four nations demonstrate degrees of ambivalence and connection to the Asia-Pacific as a region, the project argues that relations to modernity and globalization are less nation-specific. The project articulates a regional configuration of modernity which is multiple, contradictory but nonetheless regional. Each nation has in common the imperative to reconcile with and adapt to European modernity in a way that renders global modernity multiple rather than singular.

Series Statement

Studies in international performance

Uniform Title

Studies in international performance.

Subject

Theater > Pacific Area

Note

• Authors: Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson and Barbara Hatley.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-241) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Regional modernities in the global era -- pt. I. Changing forms of theatre and drama -- Modern Australian drama : haunted by the past -- Modernity and the self in Singapore : Emily of Emerald Hill -- Modern drama and postcolonial modernity in Indonesia -- Hirata Oriza's Tokyo notes and the new modern -- pt. II. Mobile performance and fluid identities -- Solid and liquid modernities in regional Australia -- Staging Indonesian modernity after Suharto -- '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 -- Dramaturgy of the liquid : Cargo Kuala Lumpur-Singapore -- pt. III. Beyond regionality : the Asia-Pacific's global reach -- Australian adaptations : the European turn -- Performing liquid modernity : Chay Yew's Visible cities in Singapore -- Performing 'authentic Indonesia' transculturally -- Kawamura Takeshi's theatre and the spectacle of adaptation -- pt. IV. Regional flows -- Cultural exchange, arts festivals and markers of modernity.

Call Number

MWEL (Pacific Area) 13-5930

ISBN

• 0230366481
• 9780230366480

OCLC

834978393

Author

Varney, Denise.

Title

Theatre and performance in the Asia-Pacific : regional modernities in the global era / Denise Varney ... [et al.].

Imprint

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, c2013.

Series

Studies in international performance

Studies in international performance.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-241) and index.

Added Author

Eckersall, Peter.

Hudson, Chris.

Hatley, Barbara.

Research Call Number

MWEL (Pacific Area) 13-5930