The Color of Theater: Race, Culture and Contemporary Performance

By Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns and Roberta Uno

Book Overview

The Colour of Theatre presents a range of essays, interviews and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution and dynamics of making theatre in the dawning moments of the twenty-first century. It berings together writing by artists, intellectuals and art activists exploring contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural and ethnically specific theaters. This provocative and dynamic resource brings forth critical issues of cultural aesthetics, engaging theatre as a crucial site for examining the intricate intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and national and global politics. Roberta Uno is Professor of Theatre at the University of Massachusetts and Artistic Director of New WORLD Theatre. Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns is Assistant Professor is Asian American Studies and the World Arts and Cultures Department at UCLA.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826478816
• ISBN13: 9780826478818
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"