Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary (Contemporary Performance InterActions)

Acknowledgements
Praise for Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Politics, Performance, the Contemporary and Southeast Asia
	Politics and Performance in Southeast Asia
	Performing Southeast (of) Asia: States of Imagination
	The Contemporary in/and Southeast Asian Performance
	The Politics of Representation
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: ‘Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Promise’: Performing a Pan-ASEAN Archipelagic Identity at Age 50
	Dazzling Dinner Display
	The Parade of National Artists Evoking the ASEAN Spirit
	‘Yesterday’s Dreams, Tomorrow’s Promise’
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: ‘Pornography Disguised as Art’: Bare/d Bodies, Biopolitics and Multicultural Tolerance in Singapore
	Pornography Disguised as Art
	Biopower, Bare/d Body, Bureaucratic Body
	Contemporary Multiculturalism and the Limits of Tolerance
	The Universal and the Multicultural
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Baling in a Time of BERSIH: Embodying Historical Transcripts as Enactments of Resistance
	Recasting the Bogey of ‘Public Enemy Number One’
	Embodying Historical Transcripts to Contest Reductive Narratives
	Excavating Hidden Histories as Political Revisioning
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Staging the Banality of Social Evil: Faust and/in Philippine Contemporary Social Politics
	From Adaptation to an Event
	Never Again: The Stage Speaks
	Allegory of Contemporary Philippine Political Life
	Taking the Lead to Tell the Real Story
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: A Transformative Theatre of Dialogue: The Makhampom Theatre Group’s Negotiation of Thailand’s Likay (Theatre) State
	Introduction
	Complicating the Contemporary: The Praxis of Makhampom Theatre
	Forces of Change
	Crafting Dialogue on Stage
	Dramatic Engagement in Three Acts
		Act 1: Drama Sunjon
		Act 2: Holding Time
		Act 3: The Voice
	Conclusion: An Emergent Contemporary Theatre Praxis in Thailand’s Likay (Theatre) State
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Intervention, Openness and Ownership: Interview with Ong Keng Sen on Festival Dramaturgy
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Wayang kontemporer: The Politics of Sponsorship and Innovation
	Government Intervention in Wayang: A Short History
	Which Contemporary? A Working Definition of Wayang Kontemporer
	Rejection of Wayang’s Feudal Values
	Wayang in Indonesia
	Conservative Innovations
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Authenticity and Contemporary Musical Theatre in Thailand
	Rethinking Authenticity in Contemporary Thai Theatre
	Reworking Tradition in Adaptations for the Thai Musical
	Rasa and Spectacle in the Thai Musical
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia—The Politics of Memory and an Aesthetics of Remembrance
	Narratives of Mourning
	Memory, Ritual and Performance
	Between History and Memory
	An Aesthetics of Remembrance
	(Not) Forgetting and Forgiveness
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: The Wheres and Whys of Southeast Asia: Art and Performance in the Locating of Southeast Asia Today
	That Discursive Construct Called Southeast Asia: Here and Not-Entirely-Here at the Same Time
	Re-membering the Broken Body of Asia
	Remembering, Forgetting and Erasure: Southeast Asia’s Lost Others
	Asking The Question: What Performance and Art Can Do
	Bibliography
Index