Presentations at the Asian Theatre Working Group meting at the University of Ghana, 24 - 28 July 2023.

Day 1, 25 July 2023

11 AM to 12:30 PM

Cedi Conference Centre

 

Opening Program

 

Messages

 

YASUSHI NAGATA

Founding Convener of the Asian Theatre Working Group

 

SIR ANRIL P. TIATCO

Asian Theatre Working Group Convener Accra 2023

 

LIYANG XIA

Asian Theatre Working Group Co-Convener Accra 2023

 

 

ATWG Panel 1

“Mythmaking, Theatre-making in/and China”

 

SIR ANRIL P. TIATCO

Moderator/Panel Chair

 

Fight for Freedom: 

Zuguang Wu’s Poetic Myth Adaptations 

During the Semi-Colonial Period in China

QI WANG

Goldsmith, University of London

UNITED KINGDOM

 

Ibsen for Sexual Activism: 

Interrogating the Myth of “Left-Over Women” in Urban China

LIYANG XIA

University of Oslo

NORWAY

 

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Day 2, 26 July 2023

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Cedi Conference Centre

 

ATWG Panel 2:

“Mythmaking, Rituals, and Performance in the Asia-Pacific”

 

LIYANG XIA

Moderator/Panel Chair

 

The Stories from the Rehearsal Room: 

Deconstructing Yudai Kamisato’s Immigrant Ghost Stories

BERI JURAIC

Lancaster University

UNITED KINGDOM

 

Panata sa Bundok: Performing Devotion and Religion in Mount Banahaw

DAVIDSON G. OLIVEROS

University of the Philippines Diliman

PHILIPPINES

 

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Day 3, 28 July 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Cedi Conference Centre

 

ATWG Panel 3:

“Myth as Method; Myth as Poetics”

 

DAVIDSON G. OLIVEROS

Moderator / Panel Chair

 

Truth-making or Myth-making?

The Portrayal of Huineng in the Play

and the Production of Gao Xingjian’s Snow in August

TSU-CHUNG SU

National Taiwan Normal University

TAIWAN

 

Celebration and Remembrance in Kalibo’s Ati-Atihan: 

Myth-making as Recuperation of Cultural Memory

SIR ANRIL P. TIATCO

University of the Philippines Diliman

PHILIPPINES

 

 

Closing Program

 

Invitation and Plans for 2024 and 2025

SIR ANRIL P. TIATCO

LIYANG XIA

Asian Theatre Working Group Conveners