About this Book

New Theatre Quarterly provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Volume 79 includes: Karl Valentin's Illogical Subversion: Stand-up Comedy and Alienation Effect; The Shamen and the Epic Theatre: the Nature of Han in the Korean Theatre; Dialogism and the Theatre Event: Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw's Medea, 2001; The Irony of Passionate Chaos: Modernity and Performing Medea; Dance Culture and Statutory Politics: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Myth of Primitivism.