The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre: The Displaced Mirror Min Tian

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• ISBN 10:  3319971786
• ISBN 13: 9783319971780
• Author: Min Tian

This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, Antonin Artaud, V. E. Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Bertolt Brecht. It investigates the theories and practices of these leading figures in their transnational and cross-cultural relationship with Asian theatrical traditions and their interpretations and appropriations of the Asian traditions in their reactional struggles against the dominance of commercialism and naturalism. From the historical and aesthetic perspectives of traditional Asian theatres, it approaches this intercultural phenomenon as a (Euro)centred process of displacement of the aesthetically and culturally differentiated Asian theatrical traditions and of their historical differences and identities. Looking into the displaced and distorted mirror of Asian theatre, the founding fathers of modern Western theatre saw, in their imagination of the ‘ghostly’ Other, nothing but a (self-)reflection or, more precisely, a (self-)projection and emplacement, of their competing ideas and theories preconceived for the construction, and the future development, of modern Western theatre.

Table contents:

Introduction: The Displaced Mirror
International Dramatic Prospecting: Aurélien Lugné-Poe’s Use of Asian Dramas
“In Our Two Selves”: Adolphe Appia and Gordon Craig on Japanese Theatre
“Sea-worthy must put to sea”: W. B. Yeats’s “Nō” and the Japanese Model
“Free Transposition”: The Use of Nō by Jacques Copeau and Suzanne Bing
Theatre of Transposition: Charles Dullin and East Asian Theatre
“IT IS WE WHO ARE SPEAKING”: Antonin Artaud and Balinese Theatre
“Welding the Unweldable”: Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Refraction of Japanese Theatre
How Does the Billy-Goat Produce Milk? Sergei Eisenstein’s Disintegration and Reconstitution of Kabuki Theatre
“The ‘Asiatic’ Model”: The Brechtian Art of Refunctioning of Japanese (Asian) Theatre
Conclusion: A Haunting Legacy

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