Program of Asian Theatre WG
9 July
| 9:00−10:30 | Theatre in Exile Chair: Mitsuya Mori | Tsu-Chung Su, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Qibla—A Neverending Story of Migration Meewon Lee, Korean National University of Arts, South Korea The representative Korean-American Diaspora playwrights Hyunshik Ju, Kyonggi University, South Korea North Korean Defectors and a Theatre of hospitality |
| 11:00−12:30 | Theatre in Asian Politics Chair: Yasushi Nagata | Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco, University of the Philippines, Philippines Revolution, Documentation, Condemnation: Toward a Genealogy of Political Theatre on the Manila Stage Jessica Yeung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A Pan-Asian Peoples Theatre about the Pan-Asian Histories: The Works of Augustine Chiu-yu Mok, Hong Kongs most Famous Anarchist Dramatist Jung-joo Choi, South Korea The Encounter of Japanese experimental theatre with Korean Contemporary Theatre as in Kim Sujin, Oh Taesok, and Goh Sunwung |
10 July
| 14:00−15:30 | ③ Japanese Regional theatre Chair: Mitsuya Mori | Kei Hibino, Seikei University, Japan Theatre That Holds the Self-Reflective Mirror up to Nature: Japanese Local Amateur Theatre Reconsidered Tomoko Goto, Tottori University, Japan Potentials of Amateur Theater Production in Super Aging Society: A Case Study on Theater Activities by the Elderly |
11 July
| 14:00−15:30 | ④Tradition and Contemporary Chair: Hayato Kosuge | Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Kaoru Nakao, Osaka University, Japan Off, off, you lendings! Come. Unbutton here”: The divestment of authority and the cultivation of hope in Makoto Sato’s reincarnation of Lear with Mügen Nōh elements Wei Feng, Shandong University, China ‘Nothing’ Reshaped: Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs in Classical Chinese Theatre Balakrishna Pillai Anandha Krishnan, University of Hyderabad, India Classics in Post colonial Indian theatre |
12 July
| 9:00−10:30 | Asian Diversity Chair: Anna Thuring | Sebnem Sozer Ozdemir, Duzce University, Turkey The Aesthetics of Meşk: An Analysis of the Mode of Transmission in Traditional Performing Arts of Turkey Ursala Maya Tangeberg, Swiss The World and the Word in two Hands |
| 16:00−17:30 | ⑥ Asian Theatre in Memories Chair: Meewon Lee | Anna Thuring, University of Arts Helsinki, Finland Between East and West? Changing Reception of Asian Performances in Finland Yasushi Nagata, Osaka University, Japan Representation of Manchuria in Japanese Post War Plays Ravi Chatruverdi, Manipal University, India King Lear’s Migration from Tragedy to Happy Ending &Possibilities of intra-cultural (de)rooting General Discussion: Future of Asian Theatre WG |
