Abstract
From the turn of the century to the 1930s, three Japanese theatre troupes successively toured the West spanning a long period of time and a large geographic area. During their overseas tours, the various "theatrical" and "total" qualities identified in the troupes' stage performances highly fascinated and impressed the Westerners. Although the Westerners' reception of the Japanese touring troupes' performances was inevitably accompanied by some "(mis)interpretations". Nonetheless, these "(mis)interpretations" could be regarded as a kind of positive "self-affirmation", which greatly strengthened and reinforced the ideals and visions of some innovative Western theatre practitioners who had been aspiring to "revitalize" Western theatre by feasible means of "re-theatricalization" and "re-totalization."
First Page
86
Last Page
96
Recommended Citation
Gao, Yang. 2021. ""Re-Theatricalization" and "Re-Totalization": The Historical Influence of Japanese Touring Troupes on the "Revitalization" of Western Theatre in the Early 20th Century." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 41, (3): pp.86-96. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol41/iss3/1
