Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific

Denise Varney is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Publications include The Dolls' Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination (co-author Rachel Fensham), Theatre in the Berlin Republic (ed.) and Radical Visions: The Impact of the Sixties on Australia Drama. Peter Eckersall is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. Publications include Theorising the Angura Space: avant-garde performance and politics in Japan 1960-2000 (2006) and Kawamura Takeshi's Nippon Wars and Other Plays (ed. 2011). Chris Hudson is Research Leader in the Globalization and Culture Program of the Global Cities Research Institute, and Associate Professor of Asian Cultural Studies in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Chris has published widely in Asian Cultural Studies. Barbara Hatley is Emeritus Professor of Indonesian in the School of Asian Languages and Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. Publications include Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage: Contesting Culture, Embracing Change (2008) and Ketoprak Theatre and the Wayang Tradition (1979).

Introduction: Regional Modernities in the Global Era PART I: CHANGING FORMS OF THEATRE AND DRAMA 1. Modern Australian Drama: Haunted by the Past 2. Modernity and the Self in Singapore: Emily of Emerald Hill 3. Modern Drama and Postcolonial Modernity in Indonesia 4. Hirata Oriza's Tokyo Notes and the New Modern PART II: MOBILE PERFORMANCE AND FLUID IDENTITIES 5. Solid and Liquid Modernities in Regional Australia 6. Staging Indonesian Modernity After Suharto 7. '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 8. Dramaturgy of the Liquid: Cargo Kuala Lumpur-Singapore PART III: BEYOND REGIONALITY: THE ASIA-PACIFIC'S GLOBAL REACH 9. Australian Adaptations: The European Turn 10. Performing Liquid Modernity: Chay Yew's Visible Cities in Singapore 11. Performing 'Authentic Indonesia' Transculturally 12. Kawamura Takeshi's Theatre and the Spectacle of Adaptation PART IV: REGIONAL FLOWS 13. Cultural Exchange, Arts Festivals and Markers of Modernity Conclusion