{"product_id":"9781350195295","title":"Theatre Across Borders (Theatre Makers)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator Repair Service's 9-hour production of The Great Gatsby and a Kathakali performance?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we come to appreciate the slowness of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre of post-Arab Spring Turkey?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCan we go beyond our own culture's contemporary definition of a 'good play' and think about the theatre in a deep and pluralistic manner?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his extensive experience working with theatre artists, students and thinkers across the globe - up to and including an hour-long audience with the Dalai Lama - playwright Abhishek Majumdar considers why we make theatre and how we see it in different parts of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis own work has taken him from theatre in Japan to dance companies in the Phillippines, writers in Lebanon and Palestine, theatre groups in Burkina Faso, war-torn areas like Kashmir and North Eastern India, and to China and Tibet, Argentina and Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVia a far-reaching and provocative collection of essays that is informed by this wealth of experience, Majumdar explores:\n\u003cbr\u003e- how different cultures conceive theatre and how the norm of one place is the experiment of another;\n\u003cbr\u003e- the ways in which theatre across the world mirrors its socio political and philosophical climate;\n\u003cbr\u003e- how, for thousands of years, theatre has been a tool to both disrupt and to heal;\n\u003cbr\u003e- and how, even within the many differences, there are universals from which we can all learn and how theatre does cross borders\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOf interest to theatre makers everywhere - be they writers, actors, directors or designers - this book offers an oversight, as well as interrogation, into the place of theatre in the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46349302038607,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781350195295","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}