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  • Architecture and stage of traditional Asian theatre

    Author(s)
    Mason, David
    Mackerras, Colin
    Iezzi, Julie A.
    Foley, Kathy
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Mackerras, Colin P.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Until the widespread usage of proscenium stages under western influence, theatrical performance spaces in Asia generally constituted temple, private and court stages as well as temporary and outdoor spaces. From the seventeenth century onwards, commercial urban theatres, such as Japan's kabuki and bunraku and later China's jingju, started to build public theatres. Some of these spaces, such as the noh, kabuki and bunraku stages, have maintained premodern designs until today, while others, such as China's teahouse theatres or most private and court stages throughout Asia, have yielded to the proscenium stages since the ...
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    Until the widespread usage of proscenium stages under western influence, theatrical performance spaces in Asia generally constituted temple, private and court stages as well as temporary and outdoor spaces. From the seventeenth century onwards, commercial urban theatres, such as Japan's kabuki and bunraku and later China's jingju, started to build public theatres. Some of these spaces, such as the noh, kabuki and bunraku stages, have maintained premodern designs until today, while others, such as China's teahouse theatres or most private and court stages throughout Asia, have yielded to the proscenium stages since the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This chapter discusses the history and structure of performance spaces in India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
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    Book Title
    Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre
    Publisher URI
    https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Asian-Theatre/Liu/p/book/9781315641058
    Subject
    Asian Cultural Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/143401
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