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Sep 27, 2024 · Key finding of this article is that the collaborative agency of the translator, playwright, director, stage designer, and actors/actresses in re-staging has enlivened the 13th-century Chinese ...
- Yangyang Long
- Yangyang.Long@xjtlu.edu.cn
Jul 31, 2011 · In contemporary China, the adaptations and performances of Western plays have played an important role within and without theatre. In those intercultural adaptations, Western plays are translated, appropriated and staged by interweaving Chinese and Western performing cultures.
- Chengzhou He
- chengzhou@nju.edu.cn
- 2011
Jan 30, 2018 · My purpose is to argue that translation in the theatre occurs not only discursively, through subsequent rewritings of a foreign text, but also performatively, through the negotiation of multiple languages in performance and the creative juxtaposition of those languages with the actor’s body, ethnicity and role.
- Cristina Marinetti
- 2018
Yet between premodern tradition and postmodern cinema is a century of modern Asian theatre and drama—over a hundred years of non-traditional plays and performances that embody all of the social, political, and cultural concerns of Asia as it encountered the West and then began to modernize.
Until the late nineteenth century, Western interest in Asian theatre was humanistic and antiquarian. The study of "dramatic literature" was a means of learning more about other cultures, and important Asian theatre works were trans- lated and commented upon, often by colonial administrators and missionaries.
introduce and adapt Western theatre. There it first appeared in acculturated forms, only to be replaced later by styles that emphasized foreignization in translation and production. The acculturated form of Western theatre, which emerged in Japan during the 1880s as a result of the country's modernization and Westernization, is known as shinpa (new
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Professor of Asian Theatre, University of Hawaii at Manoa • The most comprehensive guide to the theatrical arts of Asia-Oceania ever published • Fascinating and illuminating detail on the development of theatre in twenty Asian countries • A huge range covered, from puppet traditions to spirit communication, from court theatre to popular ...
