A History of Asian American Theatre

A History of Asian American Theatre
Author: Esther Kim Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2006-10-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521850517

This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.

Asian American Culture on Stage

Asian American Culture on Stage
Author: Yuko Kurahashi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 113652987X

This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades.

Performing Asian Transnationalisms

Performing Asian Transnationalisms
Author: Amanda Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135010331

This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses the cross-border relationships that exist within and between Asian American, British East Asian, and South East Asian theatres, investigating the effect of transnationalism on the construction of identity, the development of creative praxis, and the reception of works in different social fields. This book therefore examines how practitioners engage with one another across borders, and details the cross-cultural performances, creative opportunities, and political alliances that result. By viewing ethnic minority theatres as part of global — rather than simply national — cultural fields, Rogers argues that transnational relationships take multiple forms and have varying impetuses that cannot always be equated to diasporic longing for a homeland or as strategically motivated for economic gain. This argument is developed through a series of chapters that examine how different transnational spatialities are produced and re-worked through the practice of theatre making, drawing upon an analysis of rehearsals, performances, festivals, and semi-structured interviews with practitioners. The book extends existing discussions of performance and globalization, particularly through its focus on the multiplicity of transnational spatiality and the networks between English-language Asian theatres. Its analysis of spatially extensive relations also contributes to an emerging body of research on creative geographies by situating theatrical praxis in relation to cross-border flows. Performing Asian Transnationalisms demonstrates how performances reflect and rework conventional transnational geographies in imaginative and innovative ways.

Milestones in Asian American Theatre

Milestones in Asian American Theatre
Author: Josephine Lee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000636372

This introduction to Asian American theatre charts ten of the most pivotal moments in the history of the Asian diaspora in the USA and how those moments have been reflected in theatre. Designed for weekly use on Asian American theatre courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest contact between Japan and the West through the impact of the Vietnam War and the resurgent "yellow peril" hysteria of COVID-19. Each chapter emphasizes common questions of how racial identities and relationships are understood in everyday life as well as represented on the theatrical stage and in popular culture. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

National Abjection

National Abjection
Author: Karen Shimakawa
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822328230

DIVExplores the ways that playwrights and performers have dealt with the presentation of the Asian American body on stage, given the historical construction of Asian Americanness as abject and unpresentable./div

Yellow Face (TCG Edition)

Yellow Face (TCG Edition)
Author: David Hwang
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1559366710

A new satire of multiculturalism, by one of America's leading playwrights.

Made-Up Asians

Made-Up Asians
Author: Esther Kim Lee
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2022-07-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472055437

Why and how Asian characters have been represented by non-Asian actorson stage and screen

Vietgone

Vietgone
Author: Qui Nguyen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2016
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN: 9780573706479

Typescript, dated 10.18.16. This unmarked typescript was like that used for the Manhattan Theatre Club's stage production at City Center Stage I, 131 West 55th Street, New York, N.Y. The mostly comic play about Vietnamese refugees in America in 1975 opened Oct. 25, 2016, and was directed by May Adrales. The refugees speak English like Americans, and Americans speak it like refugees.

Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas

Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas
Author: Esther Kim Lee
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822352745

By bringing the plays together in this collection, Esther Kim Lee highlights the themes and styles that have enlivened Korean diasporic theater in the Americas since the 1990s. Some of the plays are set in urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Texas, while another unfolds entirely in a character's mind. Ethnic identity is not as central as it was in the work of previous generations of Asian diasporic playwrights.