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Asian Theatre Journal is dedicated to the performing arts of Asia, focusing upon both traditional and modern theatrical forms. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge throughout the international theatrical community for the mutual benefit of all interested scholars and artists. This engaging, intercultural journal offers descriptive and analytical articles, original plays and play translations, book and audiovisual reviews, and reports of current theatrical activities in Asia. Full-color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate each issue.
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Volume 42, Number 2, Fall 2025Table of Contents
Special Section: South and Southeast Asian Ecotheatre
Translation
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View Translating “Sair Opera Bangsawan”: Accessing Early Twentieth-Century Indonesian Theatre History
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Emerging Scholars
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View Puppets, Trauma, and Performative Remembering: Flip Flops Theatre’s Lala: The Singing Bear (2019) and I Promised I Wouldn’t Cry (2019)
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View When the Oxygen Mask Becomes Excess: The Ethics of Cultural Preservation and Haenyeo Kitchen’s Food Ecology
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Book Reviews
South Asia
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View An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu ed. by Nandita Banerjee Dhawan and Sam Kolodezh (review)
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Southeast Asia
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View The In-Between In Javanese Performing Arts: History and Myth, Interculturalism And Interreligiosity by Sumarsam (review)
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View Innovation, Style, and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art by Kathryn Emerson (review)
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| ISSN | 1527-2109 |
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| Print ISSN | 0742-5457 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2025-08-28 |
| Open Access | No |




