Overview

The Color of Theater presents a range of essays, interviews and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution and dynamics of making theater in the dawning moments of the 21st century. It brings together writings by artists, intellectuals and art activists exploring contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural and ethnically specific theaters. This provocative and dynamic resource brings forth critical issues of cultural aesthetics engaging theatre as a crucial site for examining the intricate intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and national and global politics. Contributors include Rustom Bharucha, Thulani Davis, Harry Elam, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Velina Hasu Huston, Cherríe Moraga, David Román, Sekou Sundiata, Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and lê thi diem thúy.

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Author:   Roberta Uno ,  Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780826478818

ISBN 10:   0826478816
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction The color of theater, Roberta Uno Part II: Essays 1. Theater Beyond Borders, Thulani Davis 2. Interculturalism and Multiculturalism in an Age of Globalisation, Discriminations, Discontents and Dialogue, Rustom Bharucha 3. Staging Social Memory, Diana Taylor 4. Re-Imagining the Stage, Jaye T. Darby 5. Notes from a Cosmopolite, Velina Hasu Houston 6. Towards A New Territory in 'Multicultural' Theater, Harry J. Elam, Jr. 7. Sour Grapes: The Art of Anger in America, Cherrie Moraga Part III: Interviews 8. Someplace to be Somebody: La Ma Ma's Ellen Stewart, Alvin Eng 9. Uncovering and Displaying out Universes: Jesusa Rodriguez in/on Mexico Roselyn Constantino 10. Gendering Chiapas: Petrona Cruz Cruz and Isabel J.F. Juarez Espinosa of FOMMA, Harley Erdman 11. Who's Doing it Now? Conversations with Brian Freeman on the Politics of Black Gay Performance, Marlon M. Bailey 12. Something Larger than Ourselves: Interview with Nobuko Miyamoto, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns 13. Theater and Activism: Conversation with Chuck Mike, Awam Amkpa 14. Weaving a Legacy: An Interview with Muriel Miguel of the Spiderwoman Theater, Ann Haugo 15. Los Angeles Intersections: Chay Yew, David Roman Part IV: Performance Texts Quinceanera 16. Collaboration/Celebration: Introduction to Quinceanera, Joseph Salvatore Jr. 17. Quinceanera, Alberto Beto Araiza, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Michael Marinez and Danny Saldivar 18. Quinceanera: A Latino Queer and Transcultural Party of AIDS, Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez the bodies between us 19. Meditations on the Exotic Condition: Introduction to the bodies between us, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns 20. the bodies between us, le thi diem thuy 21. look at my bones: Theater as Contact Zone in the bodies between us, Una Chaudhuri BORDERscape 2000 22. Pocha Nostra's Apocolyptic Landscape: Introduction to BORDERscape 2000, Lisa Wolford 23. BORDERscape 2000, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes 24. Audioscape 2000: The Pocha Nostra and the Performance of Sound, Josh D. Kun 25. Elijah's Journey, Talvin Wilks 26. Elijah, Sekou Sundiata 27. Conversations with History: Sekou Sundiata, Craig Harris and Elijah, Joni Jones 28. Afterword on Udu, Formerly Elijah, Sekou Sundiata Selected bibliography

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Roberta Uno is Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of Massachusetts and Artistic Director of New World Theater. Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns is a Doctoral Candidate in the American Studies Program, English Department, at the University of Massachusetts.

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