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THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
卷 47, 期 1, 页码 63-78出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S030788332100050X
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This paper focuses on Mark Teh's long-term investigations into the Baling talks, which aimed to end the Malayan emergency, as well as his performance Baling as a collaborative project that expands the definition of documentary theatre and challenges cultural regionalism and colonial knowledge systems.
Held in December 1955, the Baling talks represented a unique attempt to end the Malayan emergency through a negotiated peace between the British colonial government and the Malayan Communist Party, but it also marked the beginning of the Cold War in Asia. This paper focuses on Mark Teh's long-term investigations, as a researcher and theatre director for the Five Arts Centre in Kuala Lumpur, into this historically significant Cold War event and its representation. Teh's performance Baling is examined as an exemplary collaborative project that expands Western definitions of the documentary theatre, while highlighting the continuing efforts of South East Asian artists to contest cultural regionalism and colonial knowledge systems. Drawing on Brechtian aesthetics and postcolonial theory, Teh appropriates diverse forms of politically engaged art in order to question the role of history and the archive in the solidification of nationalist ideologies and identity binaries in the post-war era.
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