Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama

by Christopher B. Balme

Decolonizing the Stage is a major study devoted to post-colonial drama and theater. It examines the way dramatists and directors from various countries and societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western dramatic form. The study provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theater movements, ranging from Maori, Aboriginal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198184441
• ISBN13: 9780198184447
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"