Pacific Performances

CHRISTOPHER B. BALME is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Munich, Germany. His publications include The Reformation of Comedy, Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama and Fusion Cultures (editor), amongst others.  

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Pacific Overtures; Trumpets, Beaches, and Women Staged Authenticity; The South Seas and European Theatre, 1785-1830 Comedians and Crusaders; Anti-Theatrical Prejudice in the South Seas Dressing the Hulas and Taming the Haka; Performing Identity in Hawaii and New Zealand Kindred Spirits; Spectacles of Samoa in Wilhelminian Germany Birds of Paradise; American-Pacific Dramas of Displacement 'As You Always Imagined It': The Pacific as Tourist Spectacle Translocations and Transgressions; The Postcolonial Pacific Bibliography Index