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Multiple perspectives on the work in Asian and cross-cultural performance practice occurring in courses, workshops, master classes and research projects at the Centre over the preceding decade.

Contents:

• Tony Day and Paul Dowsey-Magog "Introduction"
• Keiji Sawada "Australian Theatre and Japanese Theatre: An Introduction to a Comparative Study"
• Michael Cohen "Châo Vietnam: Corporate Colonialism in a Lunchbox"
• Damien Millar "Their Grotesque Opposites"
• Sarah Dunn "Cross Cultural Productions: Peter Brook and the Mahabharata"
• Chris Murphy "Operation Hypothesis: Tadashi Suzuki's 'Toil and Trouble' tour, Australia 1992"
• Michael Cohen "Seventeen Stories about Interculturalism and Tadashi Suzuki"
• Sally Sussman and Tony Day "Orientalia, Orientalism, and the Peking Opera Artist as 'Subject' in Contemporary Australian Performance"
• Damien Millar "'The Restrained Passion of You Both': A short essay on the film Nji Ronggeng"
• Sarah Weiss "Rules or Rasa: Aesthetics and Gender in the Performance of Central Javanese Wayang"
• Tony Day "Performances of East Javanese Wayang and the Possibility of 'Internal Otherness' in Contemporary Java"
• "Wayang Round Table"