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Foreign Assembly Toshiki Okada’s Time’s Journey through a Room in the US

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2021

Abstract

Okada is one of the most internationally produced contemporary Japanese playwrights. American directors approach his work both as uniquely Japanese and as a synecdoche for the world. The story of Okada’s web of institutional, professional, and personal relationships is an object lesson in the foreign assembly of international works.

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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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