School
of Drama Hosts the 9th International Asian Theatre Studies
Conference on “Theatricality and Audience in Contemporary Theatre”
From 6 to 7 November, the International Asian Theatre Studies Conference (IATSC), an annual event by the K-Arts, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Osaka University, and Taipei National University of Arts, was arranged by the K-Arts’ School of Drama.
This
year, the topic was “Theatricality and Audience in Contemporary Theatre.”
Encountering a new environment, such as a performance with no audience or limited
audience that follows the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference
contemplated the direction of theater incorporating transition to the digital.
The graduate students from four schools presented nineteen theses. Besides the
theses on theatricality and audience, many other papers covered intriguing
topics on the large extents of theatre, encompassing from traditional to
modern, experimental theatre. More details of the conference and presented
papers are available on the IATSC website.
Go to the IATSC
website: https://iatsc.org/