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The Orientations Trilogy: Theatre and Gender: Asia and Europe (review)

The Orientations Trilogy: Theatre and Gender: Asia and Europe (review) 582 Book Reviews interested in diasporic performances, especially by artists of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi ethnicity in modern U.K. drama and intercultural styles, will value this work. Kathy Foley University of California, Santa Cruz THE ORIENTATIONS TRILOGY: THEATRE AND GENDER: ASIA AND EUROPE. Edited by Michael Walling and Roe Lane. Enfield, Middlesex, UK: Border Crossings. 225 pp. $21.00. “For those working in intercultural performance, it is hard to avoid hear- ing the word ‘difficult’ at some stage in the process,” Li Ruru and Jonathan Pitches write in an essay in this volume (p. 196). The reader will find the scripts here—devised plays with Michael Walling as director for Border Crossings, an ongoing intercultural theatre project—difficult and sometimes approaching a theatrical house of Babel. For example, Re-Orientations (2010) includes inspi- ration from Stingberg’s Miss Julie, contemporary Shanghai yue opera, ballet’s Swan Lake, homoerotic cross-cultural relationships, and parent-child divides. Kanadaan, Chinese, English, and Swedish characters culturally and linguisti- cally collide in a theatrical devised piece about gender, culture, and artistic practice. Tsunamis (narratively and figuratively) surge into the plot as well. As I read, I longed to do a dramaturgical intervention. But the piece worked better onstage. “At its very best http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

The Orientations Trilogy: Theatre and Gender: Asia and Europe (review)

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Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 29 (2) – Feb 14, 2013
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582 Book Reviews interested in diasporic performances, especially by artists of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi ethnicity in modern U.K. drama and intercultural styles, will value this work. Kathy Foley University of California, Santa Cruz THE ORIENTATIONS TRILOGY: THEATRE AND GENDER: ASIA AND EUROPE. Edited by Michael Walling and Roe Lane. Enfield, Middlesex, UK: Border Crossings. 225 pp. $21.00. “For those working in intercultural performance, it is hard to avoid hear- ing the word ‘difficult’ at some stage in the process,” Li Ruru and Jonathan Pitches write in an essay in this volume (p. 196). The reader will find the scripts here—devised plays with Michael Walling as director for Border Crossings, an ongoing intercultural theatre project—difficult and sometimes approaching a theatrical house of Babel. For example, Re-Orientations (2010) includes inspi- ration from Stingberg’s Miss Julie, contemporary Shanghai yue opera, ballet’s Swan Lake, homoerotic cross-cultural relationships, and parent-child divides. Kanadaan, Chinese, English, and Swedish characters culturally and linguisti- cally collide in a theatrical devised piece about gender, culture, and artistic practice. Tsunamis (narratively and figuratively) surge into the plot as well. As I read, I longed to do a dramaturgical intervention. But the piece worked better onstage. “At its very best

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