Open Access Resources for Performing Asia

• Identity & Self Definition: “Yellow Face”

Resource type: video clips and assignment

Topic: Week 2 Glimpses of the Orient

Comment: Like M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face is an excellent case study for how Asian identity is “orientalized” in the western performance culture.

• Celebrating Diversity in Theatre

Resource Type: creative assignment

Topic: Assignment 2

This assignment facilitates the student’s creative process in Assignment 2 with open-access resources.

• Democracy in Difference: Debating Key Terms of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Identity

Resource Type: textbook

Topic: Week 1 Introduction and Overview

This book briefly explains key theoretical terms regarding Asian identity in theatre and performance, such as decolonization, Orientalism, performativity, and racialization.

• Choi, Boram. “The Poetics of Body: Representing Cultural Imaginations in Yang Jung-Ung’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’” Multicultural Shakespeare 25, No. 40, 75-94. 2022.

Resource Type: scholarly article

Topic: Week 7 Asianizing the Western Cannon: Asian Shakespeare

This article (and the open-access journal it belongs to) provides a rich site for discussing the representation of ethnic identity and performance aesthetics in Asian Shakespeare productions.

• Donath, Stefan, Richard Gough, and Christel Weiler. “Editorial: Practices of Interweaving,” Performance Research 25, 1-9. 2020.

Resource Type: scholarly article

Topic: Week 5 Intercultural Theatre: What is it?

This article introduces the readers to “interweaving performance cultures,” a key term raised to counter the problematic connotations of “intercultural theatre” in theatre and performance research and practice.