ISBN-13: 9781905763115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.
ISBN-13: 9781905763115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.
What motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South? What happens to a 'gay' play when it is staged in a country where the performance of gender is a theatrical tradition? What are the politics of First Nations or Aboriginal theatre in Japanese translation and 'colour blind' casting? Is a Canadian no drama that tells a story of the Japanese diaspora a performance in cultural appropriation or dramatic innovation?In looking for answers to these questions, Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan extends discussions of theatre translation through a selective investigation of six Western plays, translated and staged in Japan since the 1960s, with marginalized tongues and bodies at their core."