Recently added articles from Asian Theatre Journal:
The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... THE KOMEDIE STAMBOEL: POPULAR THEATER IN COLONIAL INDONESIA, 1891-1903. By Matthew Isaac Cohen. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 2006. 473 pp. 36 black and white illus. 4 black and white maps. Appendix of Plays and Tableaux, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Paper ...
Progressive Traditions: An Illustrated Study of Plot Repetition in Traditional Japanese Theatre.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... PROGRESSIVE TRADITIONS: AN ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF PLOT REPETITION IN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE THEATRE. By Helen S. E. Parker. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xii + 189 pp., 5 black and white photos + CD-ROM. Cloth $150. Linking written text with historical source material, performance text, and ...
Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture Through Japanese Dance.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... SENSATIONAL KNOWLEDGE: EMBODYING CULTURE THROUGH JAPANESE DANCE. Tomie Hahn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 197 pp. + DVD. Paper $26.95. In Sensational Knowledge ethnomusicologist Tomie Hahn uses her thirty-plus years studying nihon buyo in Tokyo's Tachibana ...
Shakespeare in China.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... SHAKESPEARE IN CHINA. By Murray J. Levith. New York: Continuum, 2004. xiv + 156 pp. Cloth $39.95. Murray Levith, Shakespearean scholar and author of Shakespeare's Italian Settings and Plays, What's in Shakespeare's Names, and Renaissance and Modern, takes on a ...
Poetics, Plays, and Performance: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre.
Mar 22, 2008; ... POETICS, PLAYS, AND PERFORMANCE: THE POLITICS OF MODERN INDIAN THEATRE. By Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2006. xiv, 366 p., 11 photographs. Hardcover Rs 1,080.00 ($27.00). Vasudha Dalimia in her recent book about the modern Indian ...
Terracotta Warriors.(Theater review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... TERRACOTTA WARRIORS. Written, produced, and directed by Dennis K. Law, MD. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, California. 23 September 2006. Terracotta Warriors, which tells the story of emperor Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BCE), who united ...
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2008; ... I wish to highlight the teaching that occurs through Asian Theatre Journal (ATJ) and the Association for Asian Performance (AAP), our sponsoring organization. As I edited these articles, making sure that citations were clear and references in order, a hidden human dimension of ...
Tradition, change, and continuity in Chinese theatre in the last hundred years: in commemoration of the spoken drama centenary.(ASIAN THEATRE JOURNAL 2007 LECTURE)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Commemorating the centenary of the spoken drama's introduction into China in 1907, the essay takes up several major themes in Chinese theatre over the last hundred years, such as its political and social implications and the tension between foreign and indigenous influences. The essay ...
New p'ansori in twenty-first-century Korea: creative dialectics of tradition and modernity.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Nearly a century has passed since the first new p'ansori piece The Song of Ch'oe Pyong-du was performed at the turn of the twentieth century. While traditional p'ansori, a form of folk musical drama, came to symbolize the cultural and artistic heritage of the Korean nation, new p'ansori, ...
Cutud's ritual of nailing on the cross: performance of pain and suffering.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... This research investigates the ritual nailing on the cross every Good Friday in Cutud, Pampanga, in the Philippines as a local religiocultural performance. It highlights the ritual's evolution and historicity of suffering in the context of panata (religious pledge/ vow), as a ...
Social change in kattaikkuttu's professional practice in the modernizing and globalizing society of Tamil Nadu.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Kattaikkuttu is a lively South Indian performance tradition. The tradition forms an important part of a Tamil village culture, which is currently changing due to modernization and globalization processes. The social changes that kattaikkuttu performers had to undergo over the last fifty ...
Travel and tabibanashi in the Early Modern Period: Forming Japanese Geographic Identity.(DEBUT PANEL PAPERS)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... There are three sections in "Travel and Tabibanashi in the Early Modern Period: Forming Japanese Geographic Identity." The first is about travel in the Edo period (1600-1868). In this section travel and the important role it played informing the foundations of Japanese identity are ...
Theatricality and cultural critique in Chinese cinema.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The various ways in which theatre and film interact generate diverse forms of theatricality in Chinese cinema: jingju films, narrative films containing traditional theatrical performances, and films incorporating modern performance types. The significance of theatre in Chinese cinema will ...
Contemporary yangge: the moving history of a Chinese folk dance form.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Since the beginning of its rate, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has consistently claimed that the performing arts "should assist in the process of educating the masses" (Mackerras 1981: 9). The development of yangge dance is particularly linked to the CCP's policies during both the ...
XIVeme festival mondial des theatres de Marionnettes, Charleville-Mezieres, France, 15-24 September 2006.(REPORT)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Every three years the generally quiet town of Charleville-Mezieres in the Ardennes region of France, gives itself over to an exciting festival of world puppetry. (1) Home of the Institut International de la Marionnette (International Institute of Puppetry), as well as France's own national ...
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A recent conference at my campus looked at interdisciplinarity and wondered whether we are in a post-disciplinary phase as the academy evolves. As I listened, I had the feeling that the "disciplinary silos" speakers referenced--the departments that dominate the Western university--were ...
An addendum to "Myth and Reality: A Story of Kabuki under American Censorship, 1945-1949" *.(ADDENDUM)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Question: when is enough research enough? Answer: never. I felt confident that I had, over a five-year period, done exhaustive research for the article "Myth and Reality: A Story of Kabuki under American Censorship, 1945-1949." I had read thousands of pages of documents (letters, memos, ...
Holy Week in the "Heart of the Philippines": spirituality, theatre, and community in Marinduque's Moriones Festival.
Sep 22, 2007; ... The week-long Moriones Festival on the island of Marinduque, south of Manila, weaves together a complex mix of events including street theatre, processions, religious ceremonies, and a three-night sinakulo that dramatizes the history of salvation with a focus on the Christ story. Present ...
Contemporary wayang in global contexts.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Traditional norms and values stood in the way of radical experimentation with the form of wayang until Indonesia's postcolonial era. The same impediments did not exist for colonial European artists. Edward Gordon Craig formulated his theories of the uber-marionette with reference to ...
Ninagawa Yukio's intercultural Hamlet: parsing Japanese iconography.
Sep 22, 2007; ... The efforts of Ninagawa Yukio to draw upon traditional Japanese theatrical techniques in the staging of Western classics arose from his desire to break from the mimetic, Western style of staging plays and to revitalize aspects of classical Japanese theater that had fallen out of use in ...