A moving documentary play drawn from the traumatic recollections of members of the Newcastle Workers' Club, which was destroyed in the 1989 earthquake.
Power Plays (Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia)
by Andrew N. Weintraub
Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musica...
A police investigation leads to an uncomfortable and unexpected conclusion in this psychological drama. When a woman disappears, four marriages become entangled in a web of love, deceit, sex and death. Who will survive? Nine parallel lives - interlocked by four infidelities, one missing person and a mysterious stiletto - are interwoven through a fragmented series of confessionals and interrogations that gradually reveal a darker side of human nature. The play has its West End premiere in Septemb...
