In addition to performance and book reviews, the spring issue of Asian Theatre Journal includes articles on ritual and religious theatre, contemporary theatre and the state, and the performance of identity.
Ras and Affect in Ramlila (and the Radheshyam Ramayan)
By Pamela Lothspeich
Rescuing Mulian’s Mother in the Xi Era: Reviving Ritual Xiqu in Contemporary Fujian
By Josh Stenberg
Desiring Spectacular Discipline: Aspiration, Fraternal Anxiety, and the Allure of Restraint in Nō‘s Dōjōji
By Reginald Jackson
Chinese Entertainment Industry, the Case of Folk Errenzhuan
By Haili Ma
Theatre on the Move: Sakurai Daizhou’s Tent Theatre in East Asia
By I-Yi Hsieh
2017 Black Tent Theatre Project in Gwanghwamun Square: Staging Tragic Memory and Building Solidarity through Public Theatre
By Jae Kyoung Kim
Mystic Lear and Playful Hamlet: The Critical Cultural Dramaturgy in the Iranian Appropriations of Shakespearean Tragedies
By Amin Azimi and Marjan Moosavi
Uncle Tom’s Cabin in China: Ouyang Yuqian’s Regret of a Black Slave and the Tactics of Impersonating Race, Gender, and Class
By Megan Ammirati
Trapping the Heron: The Curious Case of Sagi School Kyōgen
By Alex Rogals
Local Community Ritual Theatre in Guangxi, South China
By Jian Xie
Masks and Costumes of Purulia Chhau
By Deepsikha Chatterjee
