1st Edition
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume 5: Asia/Pacific
Edited By Katherine Brisbane, Ravi Chaturvedi, Ramendu Majumdar, Chua Soo Pong, Minoru Tanokura
Copyright 1998
540 Pages
by
Routledge
This volume featrues over 250,000 words and more than 125 photographs identifying and defining theatre in more than 30 countries from India to Uzbekistan, from Thailand to New Zealand and featuring extensive documentation on contemporary Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Australian theatre.
An Introduction: Of Nations and their TheatresDon RubinThe Blooming of a Thousand Flowers: An Introduction to Theatre in Asia and the PacificDon Rubin and Katharine BrisbaneAsia's Modern Theatres: Encounters with TraditionA.J. GunawardanaAsian Identity and Modern TheatreRavi ChaturvediTheatre for Young Audiences: History and HomogenizationWolfgang WöhlertPuppet Theatre: Touching the Sacred RootsHenryk JurkowskiAfghanistan (Overview)AustraliaBangladeshBhutan (Overview)Brunei Darussalam (Overview)Cambodia (Overview)ChinaIndiaIndonesiaIranJapanKazakhstan (Overview)Laos (Overview)MalaysiaMongolia (Overview)Myanmar (Overview)NepalNew ZealandPakistanPapua New Guinea (Overview)PhilippinesSingapore (Overview)South Pacific (Overview)Sri Lanka (Overview)Tajikistan (Overview)Thailand (Overview)Turkmenistan (Overview)UzbekistanVietnam (Overview)Further Reading: Asia/PacificInternational Reference: Selected BibliographyWriters and National Editorial CommitteesIndex
Biography
Brisbane, Katherine; Chaturvedi, Ravi; Majumdar, Ramendu; Pong, Chua Soo; Tanokura, Minoru
'... a very useful introduction to a wide variety of theatre genres, institutions and artists, particularly those developed during the post-colonial era.' - Andrew Weintraub Times Literary Supplement August 27 1999
'Writers from almost every nation on earth profile native expressions of music, dance, and puppet an dramatic theater since 1945 and comment on trends in design, training, criticism, and scholarship, in six insightful, inclusive, and entertaining volumes.' New York Public Library named The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, Six-Volume Set as one of their Best of Reference selections, April 2002
