caa a22 4500 388094176 CHVBK 20180307125300.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012835 doi S0266464X00012835 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012835 Diamond Catherine The Floating World of Nouveau Chinoiserie: Asian Orientalist Productions of Greek Tragedy [Elektronische Daten] [Catherine Diamond] Criticism is increasingly being levelled at western directors who, in the name of a vague intercultural aesthetic, embark on experiments combining western texts with various kinds of oriental movement, costume, and music. In this article, Catherine Diamond raises the same issues in regard to productions of western drama in Asia, and offers a detailed analysis of three productions of ancient Greek tragedies to reveal how a new kind of non-specific orientalism has come to pervade the international stage, originating no less in Asia than in the West. Lavish productions, mounted to impress the international festival circuit rather than to engage local audiences, appropriate western tragedies primarily on account of their status in the western literary and theatrical canon; and rather than offering new interpretations of the texts from a different cultural perspective, they contribute to the creeping ascendancy of superficially exotic spectacle. Catherine Diamond, a dancer and drama professor, is currently a director with Thalie Theatre, the only English-language theatre in Taiwan. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 142-164 0266-464X 15:2<142 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012835 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012835 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Diamond Catherine NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/2(1999-05), 142-164 0266-464X 15:2<142 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge