Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Ja... - 9781905763115

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Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary JapanNative Voices Foreign Bodies\nAuthor(s): Beverley Curran\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: St Jerome Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: St Jerome Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781905763115, 978-1905763115\nSynopsis\nWhat motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South? What happens to a 'gay' play when it is staged in a country where the performance of gender is a theatrical tradition? What are the politics of First Nations or Aboriginal theatre in Japanese translation and 'colour blind' casting? Is a Canadian n drama that tells a story of the Japanese diaspora a performance in cultural appropriation or dramatic innovation?\n\nIn looking for answers to these questions, Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan extends discussions of theatre translation through a selective investigation of six Western plays, translated and .