After Thought: Archiving Absence through a Practice-as-Research Production of Xiong Shiyi’s Lady Precious Stream

Thorpe, Ashley

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00818

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After Thought: Archiving Absence through a Practice-as-Research Production of Xiong Shiyi’s Lady Precious Stream

Ashley Thorpe

Ashley Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in Theatre in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published two monographs: The Role of the Chou (“Clown”) in Traditional Chinese Drama (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007), and Performing China on the London Stage: Chinese Opera and Global Power, 1759–2008 (Palgrave, 2016). He has also published articles in Asian Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Studies in Theatre & Performance, and TRI. [email protected]

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Ashley Thorpe

Ashley Thorpe is Senior Lecturer in Theatre in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published two monographs: The Role of the Chou (“Clown”) in Traditional Chinese Drama (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007), and Performing China on the London Stage: Chinese Opera and Global Power, 1759–2008 (Palgrave, 2016). He has also published articles in Asian Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review, Studies in Theatre & Performance, and TRI. [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2019

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2019) 63 (1 (241)): 83–99.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00818

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Lady Precious Stream is the most globally successful Chinese play in history. A practice-as-research project investigated how Chinese drama aesthetics might have been used in the original production. This revealed that gaps in archival material open up a space where the subjective nature of interpretation can be interrogated.

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