Part I. The growing impact of women -- Mae Naak and Phra Ram: Keeping company on the contemporary Thai stage -- Staging the doi moi generation and the treasures of Vietnamese tradition -- Looking within: The Balinese rwa bhineda and readjusting complementary opposites -- Part II. Censorship and global economics -- Cambodia's artistic renaissance or a new culture of dependency? -- Singapore's cosmopolitan identity and its theatrical sideshow -- Dancing with the censors: Burmese performing arts keep time -- Part III. Toward a national culture -- The Philippine theatre's quest for a hero(ine) -- From Fa Ngoum to hip-hop boom: The faces of Lao performance -- Durians, diversity, and fifty years of independence: Malaysian theatre stages its multiethnic heritage -- Conclusion

1. Theater -- Southeast Asia
2. theatre
3. women
4. culture