TY - BOOK AU - Varney,Denise TI - Theatre and performance in the Asia-Pacific: regional modernities in the Global Era T2 - Studies in international performance SN - 9780230366480 PY - 2013/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave MacMillan KW - Arts de l'espectacle KW - Àsia KW - Pacífic, Regió del KW - Teatre N1 - Bibliografia. Índex; Conté: Introduction : regional modernities in the global era -- Part. I. Changing forms of theatre and drama: 1. Modern Australian drama : haunted by the past -- 2. Modernity and the self in Singapore : Emily of Emerald Hill -- 3. Modern drama and postcolonial modernity in Indonesia -- 4. Hirata Oriza's Tokyo notes and the new modern -- Part. II. Mobile Performance and Fluid Identities: 5. Solid and liquid modernities in regional Australia -- 6. Staging Indonesian modernity after Suharto -- 7. 'Youth is not the only thing that passes at sonic speed' : speed and private lives in Okada Toshiki's The sonic life of a giant tortoise -- 8. Dramaturgy of the liquid : Cargo Kuala Lumpur-Singapore -- Part. III. Beyond Regionality : The Asia-Pacific's global reach: 9. Australian adaptations : the European turn -- 10. Performing liquid modernity : Chay Yew's Visible cities in Singapore -- 11. Performing 'authentic Indonesia' transculturally -- 12. Kawamura Takeshi's theatre and the spectacle of adaptation -- Part. IV. Regional Flows: 13.Cultural exchange, arts festivals and markers of modernity -- Conclusion ER -