Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake - politically and aesthetically - when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre. A series of recent productions are analysed, including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust . These focus discussions of translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural problems of colonialism,...
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Western culture has a long and fraught history of cultural appropriation, a history that has particular resonance within performance practice. Patrice Pavis asks what is at stake - politically and aesthetically - when cultures meet at the crossroads of theatre. A series of recent productions are analysed, including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust . These focus discussions of translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural problems of colonialism, anthropology, and ethnography. An important and questioning book by one of the world's leading figures in the field.