Free Lecture: Shakespeare in Intercultural Asian Theatre Performance: The Bard

Shakespeare is a frequent source of intercultural work that uses Asian performance techniques. This paper will consider Larry 
Reed's Tempest and Takahashi Yasunari and Nomura Mansai's Kyogen of Errors discussing how the local and the Global interface 
in the current cultural order. Economics of globalization, cross-cultural aesthetics, intercultural artists and related issues will be 
explored.

Kathy Foley is a professor of theatre arts at the University of California-Santa Cruz. She has performed wayang golek purwa 
regularly since 1979 and has been invited over the last two decades to perform at the Indonesian Wayang Festival (Pekan 
Wayang Indonesia), a national and international gathering of dalang. She spent six months in 2003 as a Fulbright Scholar 
working on "Cosmology and Character Type in Topeng and Wayang” and she taught in Thailand at the Cultural Management 
Program of Chulalongkorn University before returning to the US. She is currently at work on a book on mask and puppet 
performance in Southeast Asia.


Co-sponsored by UHM Department of Theatre and Dance, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Hamilton Library, and the 
International Cultural Studies Program.

Funding provided by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Research and 
Education Fund for Major Initiatives in the Liberal Arts.

Event Sponsor
Kennedy Theatre Page to Stage, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, International Cultural Studies, Manoa

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Lurana O'Malley, 808-956-9609, omalley@hawaii.edu

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