Theatre and Interculturalism

Introduction.- Theatrical Interculturalism and its Discontents.- Theatre Has Always Been Intercultural.- Brecht and the Materialists.- Artaud and his Doubles: The Universalists.- The West and the Rest.- Decolonizing the Stage.- Critical Intersections.- Intercultural Performance Ecologies.- Conclusion.- Further Reading.

RIC KNOWLES is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and former editor of Modern Drama. He is the author of The Theatre of Form, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre. He is general editor of the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English.

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