Carol Martin

Brecht, Feminism, and Chinese Theatre

American feminist theatre theorists have taken to Brechts Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting. But what did Brecht know about Chinese acting? Could feminists benefit by looking past Brecht to the Chinese theatre itself?

Japanese Theatre: 1960s-Present

From the Meiji restoration of 1868 through the period of Japan-as-colonial-power, to the birth of Japan, Inc. after World War II, the Japanese have responded energetically to the challenges of modernism and postmodernism no less in theatre than elsewhere.

Kawamura Takeshi: New Ideas in/for Japanese Theatre

The founder and director of Daisan Erotica discusses his theatreits aesthetics, hierarchy, funding, and repertorywith Carol Martin.

The Illumination of LEIMAY's Becoming – Corpus

In Becoming - Corpus Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya have created a work about the misapprehensions of what appears before us followed by revelations of what we are able to see: illusion without magic or otherworldliness, fantastical imagery linking memory to the lurking presence of the uncanny.

Lingering Heat and Local Global J Stuff

The apprehension created by participation in globalization while maintaining local culture and politics has altered our sense of history, identity, and aesthetics. The proliferation of new-millennium identities and epistemologies obliges scholars to know the local in the context of the global and the global in the context of the local. Looking at Japanese performance as one crucible of globalization makes the difficulty of this task apparent.

Anything But Small

In 1974, Philippe Petit tightrope walked between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. In 2004, Petit reprised that performance in Washington Square Park, more than a thousand feet closer to the ground and in a very different world.