Shakespeare and East Asia: Women & Shakespeare Podcast Interview of Alexa Alice Joubin

How do actors bring their racial and gender identities to their performance? How did Akira Kurosawa influence George Lucas’ Star Wars? In this podcast, Varsha Panjwani interviews Alexa Alice Joubin on her Oxford University Press book "Shakespeare and East Asia."
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00:18 Shakespeare East Asia overview
00:56 How do gender roles take on new meanings in translation and in new performance styles?
02:04 Transgender Twelfth Night in Japan
02:56 Japanese language eliding the subject
03:09 Why Shakespeare East Asia rather than in East Asia?
04:15 Comparing Kurosawa to Ninagawa
05:49 Macbeth by Ninagawa with cherry blossom
07:06 Macbeth (Throne of Blood) by Kurosawa
07:59 Sound and music in Ninagawa
08:34 Sound and music in Kurosawa
10:20 Asian influence on Western performance culture
11:38 Peter Brook's Titus Andronicus
12:49 Hamlet by Michael Almereyda
14:28 Conclusion
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Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021): ajoubin.org/re...
Professor Joubin teaches at George Washington University in Washington DC, and Professor Panjwani is a professor at Fordham University in London.