Journal article
Theater of Transposition: Charles Dullin and the East Asian Theater
Comparative drama, Vol.48(4), pp.333-370
12/01/2014
DOI: 10.1353/cdr.2014.0028
Abstract
Conclusion As my investigation demonstrates, Dullin's idea of a theater of transposition that evolved over his entire career drew on his longtime interest in, and experience of, the East Asian theater, as shown in his early performances in adaptations of Chinese drama, his studies of the Chinese and Japanese theater, his direct experience of the Japanese theater, and his meeting with Mei Lanfang that helped him understand the role of transposition in the transvestite theater and in the art of the theater as a whole. [...]Dullin, like Gordon Craig,119 was highly conscious of his position against imitating the techniques of the East Asian theater and against imposing its rules on Western theater, as he demonstrated clearly in the following statement: "To want to impose on our Occidental theater the rules of a theater [the theater of the Far East] created from a long tradition, which has a symbolic language uniquely of its own, would be a gross error, but not to take advantage of the admirable examples of transposition that are at the same time realistic and poetic and of the effects that it draws from plasticity and rhythm would be absurd" (SNTA, 129).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Theater of Transposition: Charles Dullin and the East Asian Theater
- Creators
- Min Tian - University of Iowa, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Comparative drama, Vol.48(4), pp.333-370
- DOI
- 10.1353/cdr.2014.0028
- ISSN
- 0010-4078
- eISSN
- 1936-1637
- Publisher
- Western Michigan University, Department of English
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Humanities and Social Sciences/Scholarly Impact
- Record Identifier
- 9984558455802771
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