Shakespeare in Intercultural Asian Theatre Performance: The Bard
a lecture

Shakespeare is a frequent source of intercultural work that uses Asian performance techniques. This paper will consider Larry Reed's Tempest and Takahashi Yasunari and Nomura Mansai's Kyogen of Errors, discussing how the local and global interface in the current cultural order. The economics of globalization, cross-cultural aesthetics, intercultural artists and related issues will be explored.

Dancing the Four Directions: Mask Puppet and Character Type in Southeast Asia
a workshop

Saturday, February 2, 2008
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Earle Ernst Lab Theatre, UHM
$18 (general), $10 (students)
Registration via Outreach College

The character masks of West Java and the wayang golek dalang (narrator/puppeteer) and type (dancers/puppets) interact. Puppets use specific character types that depend on solo performance. This workshop will explore how variations in energy, vocal resonator, music, and movement frame all stories.

Kathy Foley is a professor of theatre arts at the University of California - Santa Cruz. She has performed wayang golek purwa (Pekan Wayang Indonesia), a national and international gathering of dalang regularly since 1979 and has been invited over the last two decades to perform at the Indonesian Wayang Festival.

For more information, please contact omalley@hawaii.edu

Co-sponsored by the UHM Department of Theatre and Dance Page-to-Stage Program, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Hamilton Library, the Intercultural Culture Studies Program, and Outreach College. Funding provided by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Research and Education Fund for Major Initiatives in the Liberal Arts.