Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary

ISBN-13: 9783030346881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 294 str.

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan; Charlene Rajendran

Spis treści

1. Politics, Performance, the Contemporary and Southeast Asia; Marcus Cheng Chye Tan and Charlene Rajendran

2. ‘Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Promise’: Performing a Pan-ASEAN Archipelagic Identity at Age 50; William Peterson and Reagan Romero Maiquez

3. ‘Pornography Disguised as Art’: Bare/d Bodies, Biopolitics and Multicultural Tolerance in Singapore; Marcus Cheng Chye Tan

4. ABaling in a Time of BERSIH: Embodying Historical Transcripts as Enactments of Resistance; Charlene Rajendran

5. Staging the Banality of Social Evil: Faust and/in Philippine Contemporary Social Politics; Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco

6. A Transformative Theatre of Dialogue: The Makhampom Theatre Group’s Negotiation of Thailand’s Likay (Theatre) State; Richard Barber and Pongjit Saphakhun

7. Intervention, Openness and Ownership: Interview with Ong Keng Sen on Festival Dramaturgy; Charlene Rajendran

8. Wayang kontemporer: The Politics of Sponsorship and Innovation; Miguel Escobar Varela

9. Authenticity and Contemporary Musical Theatre in Thailand; Wankwan Polachan

10.Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia—The Politics of Memory and an Aesthetics of Remembrance; Marcus Cheng Chye Tan

11. The Wheres and Whys of Southeast Asia: Art and Performance in the Locating of Southeast Asia Today; Farish A. Noor

O autorze

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is author of Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, co-convenor of the Music Theatre Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research and online content manager for Theatre Research International. Marcus researches primarily in intercultural theatre and sound and performance, and has published extensively in journals such as TDR, Theatre Research International, Performance Research and Contemporary Theatre Review.

 

Charlene Rajendran is a theatre educator, dramaturg and practitioner, who is currently Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is co-editor of Interrogations, Excavations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre (2018) and has published a range of articles, including in journals such as Asian Theatre Journal, TDR, RIDE and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. She is Co-Director of the Asian Dramaturgs Network and Asia-Pacific Book Reviews Editor for Theatre Research International.