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Samritechak (review)

Samritechak (review) r e v i ews Performance Review SAMRITECHAK. Conceived and directed by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, 30 January 2003. Ninety percent of all classical performing artists in Cambodia (including dancers, actors, musicians, and playwrights) were killed by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Cambodia has thus been particularly challenged to preserve the traditional forms of theatre that the government attempted to obliterate, to develop modern drama, and to follow in the footsteps of much world culture in the development of intercultural theatre combining indigenous traditional theatre with texts and elements from external (often Western) cultures. Sophiline Cheam Shapiro's Samritechak, therefore, represents an attempt to engage all three challenges. An adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, the piece is a modern Cambodian classical dance-drama, placing Shakespeare's narrative (and none of his language) in a traditional setting. It was performed in robam kbach boraan, a court dance form that consists of pure dance pieces, of which there are sixty pieces in the current repertoire. Shapiro is part of the first generation of dancers to graduate from the Royal University of Fine Arts after the "killing fields." She states in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

Samritechak (review)

Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 22 (2) – Oct 31, 2005

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r e v i ews Performance Review SAMRITECHAK. Conceived and directed by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach, 30 January 2003. Ninety percent of all classical performing artists in Cambodia (including dancers, actors, musicians, and playwrights) were killed by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. Cambodia has thus been particularly challenged to preserve the traditional forms of theatre that the government attempted to obliterate, to develop modern drama, and to follow in the footsteps of much world culture in the development of intercultural theatre combining indigenous traditional theatre with texts and elements from external (often Western) cultures. Sophiline Cheam Shapiro's Samritechak, therefore, represents an attempt to engage all three challenges. An adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, the piece is a modern Cambodian classical dance-drama, placing Shakespeare's narrative (and none of his language) in a traditional setting. It was performed in robam kbach boraan, a court dance form that consists of pure dance pieces, of which there are sixty pieces in the current repertoire. Shapiro is part of the first generation of dancers to graduate from the Royal University of Fine Arts after the "killing fields." She states in

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Published: Oct 31, 2005

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