Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific

1. Introduction: Regional Modernities in the Global Era
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

Part I. Changing Forms of Theatre and Drama

2. Modern Australian Drama: Haunted by the Past
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

3. Modernity and the Self in Singapore: Emily of Emerald Hill
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

4. Modern Drama and Postcolonial Modernity in Indonesia
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

5. Hirata Oriza’s Tokyo Notes and the New Modern
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

Part II. Mobile Performance and Fluid Identities

6. Solid and Liquid Modernities in Regional Australia
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

7. Staging Indonesian Modernity After Suharto
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

8. ‘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
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

9. Dramaturgy of the Liquid: Cargo Kuala Lumpur–Singapore
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

Part III. Beyond Regionality: The Asia-Pacific’s Global Reach

10. Australian Adaptations: The European Turn
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

11. Performing Liquid Modernity: Chay Yew’s Visible Cities in Singapore
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

12. Performing ‘Authentic Indonesia’ Transculturally
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

13. Kawamura Takeshi’s Theatre and the Spectacle of Adaptation
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

Part IV. Regional Flows

14. Cultural Exchange, Arts Festivals and Markers of Modernity
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

15. Conclusion
Denise Varney, Peter Eckersall, Chris Hudson, Barbara Hatley

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Dance, Asian Culture, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies, Area Studies