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Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China

Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China

In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoke......more

The Prophet

The Prophet

January 28, 2011. Egypt stands on the brink. As the world shifts cataclysmically around a young couple, long hidden secr......more

The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution: Stories from the Syrian Revolution

The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution: Stories from the Syrian Revolution

As thousands have been tortured, jailed, maimed or killed by the Syrian regime, The Fear of Breathing is not only a new ......more

Frenchtown: A Drama About Shanghai, P.R.C.

Frenchtown: A Drama About Shanghai, P.R.C.

A reflection on family and the power of a nation, this elegant and cerebral drama explores the disquietude of Shanghai a......more

Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei’s Four Cries of a Gibbon

Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei’s Four Cries of a Gibbon

When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first cri......more

Five Modern Noh Plays

Five Modern Noh Plays

Five Modern Noh Plays brilliantly revives a great art form that has long fascinated audiences and readers throughout the......more

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era

Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific is an innovative study of contemporary theatre and performance within the fr......more

Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group

Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group

The plays of the fifth group, with their great variety, can be divided into a number of subgroups. However, it is often ......more

Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group

Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group

The plays of the fifth group, with their great variety, can be divided into a number of subgroups. However, it is often ......more

Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre

Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre

Doomed by Hope is a beautifully presented collection of essays by writers and artists which traces the history of contem......more

The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays

The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays

Akhnaton, a pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, is about to challenge everything his people and culture hold dear in The ......more

The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays

The Last Pharaoh and Other Plays

Akhnaton, a pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, is about to challenge everything his people and culture hold dear in The ......more

Tughlaq

Tughlaq

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar ......more

Brothel #9

Brothel #9

Two men strike a deal, and Rekha, a young village woman, suddenly finds herself sold into prostitution. Confined to a Ca......more

The No Plays of Japan: An Anthology

The No Plays of Japan: An Anthology

Part prose, part verse, the visually stunning No plays of Japan deal with such subjects as insanity, obsession and histo......more

The Florist @ Tahrir Square

The Florist @ Tahrir Square

Going from Upper Egypt to Cairo to start a new life was not easy, neither on her nor on her childhood sweetheart. When b......more

The Kabuki Theatre of Japan

The Kabuki Theatre of Japan

One of the most comprehensive handbooks available on Kabuki theatre. Text describes the theater’s development in the con......more

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits

Hijikata Tatsumi s explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art for......more

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits

Hijikata Tatsumi’s explosive 1959 debut Forbidden Colors sparked a new genre of performance in Japan - butoh: an art for......more

Masada Revisited

Masada Revisited

The play Masada Revisited is a semi - fictionalized retelling in play form of an incident set in the locale of Masada,......more

I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother

I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother

I am Yusuf and This Is My Brother is a powerful, poetic exploration of history, memory and different forms of love. ’Bef......more

House of Many Tongues

House of Many Tongues

Long ago, Israeli General Shimon found an abandoned house and made it home. Forty years later, Shimon, along with his im......more

Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology

Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology

Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovatio......more

Zeami: Performance Notes

Zeami: Performance Notes

Zeami (1363-1443), Japan’s most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no dra......more

Chinese Film Stars

Chinese Film Stars

This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary......more

A Gathering of Spirits: Japan’s Ghost Story Tradition: From Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga

A Gathering of Spirits: Japan’s Ghost Story Tradition: From Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga

Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the world s oldest novel, the urban leg......more

Plays from the Arab World

Plays from the Arab World

A collection of five extraordinary plays exploring and reflecting contemporary life across the Near East and North Afric......more

Chakra

Chakra

of duty, love, revenge and healing of Draupadi -- a Queen, a wife and mother. Universal and timeless, the existential qu......more

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero

Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and......more

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero

Bringing the study of Chinese theatre into the 21st-century, Lei discusses ways in which traditional art can survive and......more

Performing Women /Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India

Performing Women /Performing Womanhood: Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India

Performing Women brings visibility to the work of women who performed on the borderlines of dominant theatrical activity......more

The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema

The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema

What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What ......more

British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance

British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance

An introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines productions from major ......more

British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance

British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance

This book provides an introduction to British Asian theatre over the past 30 years. Hingorani explores and examines prod......more

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and ......more

What Fatima Did

What Fatima Did

Fatima Merchant is feisty and strong-willed. At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, wit......more

Aphrodite: A Play

Aphrodite: A Play

THE APHRODITE OF MELOS (VENUS DE MILO), THE LARGE MARBLE STATUE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE, CARVED IN THE 1ST OR 2ND CENTURY......more

A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930

A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930

In the opening decades of the twentieth century in Japan, practically every major author wrote plays that were published......more

A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930

A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930

In the opening decades of the twentieth century in Japan, practically every major author wrote plays that were published......more

Chinese Film Stars

Chinese Film Stars

This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary......more

Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India

Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lastin......more

Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power

Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power

Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its o......more

Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power

Theatre in Co-Communities: Articulating Power

Each chapter of this book presents a different marginalized community and explores how it appropriates theatre for its o......more

Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Nohs in Translation

Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Nohs in Translation

This volume of five noh translations (containing an introduction, translations, short commentaries and a glossary) diffe......more

Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater

Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater

Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in th......more

Japanese Plays: Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki Works

Japanese Plays: Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki Works

Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki Works Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that re......more

The Therapy

The Therapy

The Therapy is an absolutely fantastic piquant plot, delightfully crafted where romance accentuate a high degree of sens......more

Andha Yug

Andha Yug

This is a translation of Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug (1953), one of the most significant plays of modern India. Writte......more

Five Modern No Plays

Five Modern No Plays

Five No plays--one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world--from one of Japan’s outstandi......more

Akbar Ahmed: Two Plays: Noor and The Trial of Dara Shikoh

Akbar Ahmed: Two Plays: Noor and The Trial of Dara Shikoh

Noor is the tale of three brothers attempting to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped during Ramadan. Each b......more

The Noh Plays of Japan

The Noh Plays of Japan

The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read ......more

The Diver

The Diver

This is a highly unusual theatrical gem . . . both beautiful and beguilingly idiosyncratic. --Time Out Drawing on the th......more

The Magic Tree

The Magic Tree

Which comes first, loneliness or violence? This is the story of love born in a very dark place between a man who wants t......more

The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi

More than any other woman, El Saadawi has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism. --San Francisco Chronicle This is ......more

Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

This ground-breaking volume documents women’s influence on popular culture in twentieth-century China by examining Yue o......more

Thailand - Pattaya: Tears For The Thai Girl

Thailand - Pattaya: Tears For The Thai Girl

Jarapan had it all. A wonderful family, a good job, and a fianc she loved and would soon marry. But that was before the ......more

Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai

Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai

Jin Yan The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai tells the remarkable story of the "Emperor of Film," who dominated the golden ......more

The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism

The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism

The Oxford India Tagore focuses on Rabindranath Tagore’s views on nationalism and his work on education through his essa......more

TV Drama in China

TV Drama in China

This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the pro......more

The Daughter of Heaven: A Chinese Drama in Four Acts

The Daughter of Heaven: A Chinese Drama in Four Acts

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of thes......more

Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of queer to examine Hong Kong s screen and media culture during the transiti......more

Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater: The Poetics of Disguise, With Four Short Plays and a Monologue

Alfred Farag and Egyptian Theater: The Poetics of Disguise, With Four Short Plays and a Monologue

As one of Egyptian theater s leading contempo-rary playwrights, Alfred Farag has had a profound influence on shaping Ara......more

I, Anatolia and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama

I, Anatolia and Other Plays: An Anthology of Modern Turkish Drama

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Turkish playwriting has been notable for its verve and versatility. This two-......more

TV Drama in China

TV Drama in China

This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the pro......more

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