Theater East and West: Perspectives Toward a Total Theater

Theater East and West: Perspectives Toward a Total Theater, by Leonard Cabell Pronko, examines the surge of American interest in Asian performance traditions during the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly the fascination with Kabuki. Pronko situates this phenomenon largely within universities, which—unburdened by commercial constraints—became hubs for experimentation and cross-cultural exchange. He chronicles the rise of English-language stagings such as Narukami and Kanjinchop, the ap...