The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre The Displaced Mirror /

• Main Author: Tian, Min (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Theater.; Performing arts.; Theatre History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Global/International Theatre and Performance.; Performing Arts.

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 Brech...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Lugné-Poe's Orientalism as Part of his Mission as an International Dramatic Prospector
• Chapter 2. Appia's and Craig's Views of the Japanese Theatre
• Chapter 3. The Use of the Noh by Jacques Copeau and Suzzane Bing
• Chapter 4. Theatre of Transposition: Charles Dullin and the East Asian Theatre
• Chapter 5. Authenticity and Usability, or "Welding the Unweldable": Meyerhold's Refraction of the Japanese Theatre
• Chapter 6. How Does the Billy-Goat Produce Milk? Sergei Eisenstein's Disintegration and Reconstitution of Kabuki Theatre
• Chapter 7. "The 'Asiatic' Model": The Brechtian Displacement and Refunctioning of the Japanese Theatre
• Conclusion.