Asian Canadian Theatre

by Aquino, Nina Lee; Knowles, Ric

• ISBN13: 9780887549861
• ISBN10: 0887549861
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-20
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Pr

Summary

This book offers essays that contextualize the development of Asian Canadian theatre, celebrate its founders, analyze some of its most significant achievements, theorize its work, and articulate its major contribution to Canadian theatre in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. III
Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction to Asian Canadian Theatre	p. vii
Enunciating Asian Canadian Drama	p. 1
Performing Asian Canadlin: The Theatrical Dimension of a Grassroots Activism	p. 11
Is There an Asian Canadian Theatre in Vancouver?	p. 29
Homeland Under Attack: Looking for a New Theatrical Paradigm in Asian Americas	p. 33
Performing Traditions and Diasporic Efforts: The Kunqu Society and Little Pear Garden Collective	p. 49
On Being an Elder Statesperson	p. 59
"Patient Zero": Jean Yoon and Korean Canadian Theatre	p. 62
Reflections on the "Roots" Panel and "The Generational Divide"	p. 79
Le Rugissement du Lion: Mapping and Memory in Montreal's Chinese/Canadian Street Theatre	p. 86
Hybridity	p. 98
Asian Canadian Performance and the Politics of Misrecognition	p. 102
Sketching Subversion: Improv and the Representation of Race in Asian Canadian Comic Performances	p. 115
Toronto: Don't Be an Asshole	p. 127
The CBT Collective: Toward a Filipino Canadian Dramaturgy	p. 130
Nightwood Theatre, Asian Canadian Women, and China Doll: The Ties That Bind	p. 148
Asian Canadian Footprints in Edmonton's Concrete Theatre	p. 158
Regional Artists/Racialized Spaces	p. 168
Manipulating Theatrical Space to Create Physical Place: Betty Quan's Mother Tongue Reclaiming Space for the Individual	p. 171
Performing Asian Canadian Intimacy: Theatre Replacement's bloboxes and awkward multiculturalisms	p. 183
Jade in the Coal and the Performance of Theatrical Interculturalism	p. 195
Acting Asian	p. 208
Affect, Family, and the Past in Two Plays	p. 212
Kai-dai; Staging Queer Subjectivity in Winston Christopher Kam's Bachelor-Man	p. 223
Works Cited	p. 236
Notes on Contributors	p. 255
Index	p. 263
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