Books By Yasushi Nagata, Ravi Chaturvedi - Author

Yasushi Nagata is professor of Theatre Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. He served as president of Japanese Society for Theatre Research. He specialized Russian Avant-garde theatre and finished doctoral course in Theatre Studies of Meiji University in 1988. He was Executive Committee member of IFTR from 2004 to 2012, organizer of IFTR annual conference in Osaka 2011, and a convener of Asian Theatre Working Group. He published many articles on theatre historiography, intercultural theatre, acting method and production analysis on modern and contemporary Russian and Japanese theatres in many anthologies such as Adapting Chekhov, The Local meets the Global, Theatre and Democracy in English, and also The Age of Avant-Garde, The Theory of Japanese Arts, Performance in Post-modern Culture in Japanese. He is also director of the Museum of Osaka University and Executive producer of International Arts Festival and its Cultural Program Series there from 2013. 

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