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This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term 'interculturalism' in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field's most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a 'new' interculturalism.
List of contents
1. Introduction: New Directions?; Charlotte McIvor.- 2. From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico; Leo Cabranes-Grant.- 3. Routes and Routers of Interculturalism: Islands, Theatres and Shakespeares; Alvin Eng Hui Lim.- 4. Rethinking Interculturalism Using Digital Tools; Julie Holledge, Sarah Thomasson & Joanne Tompkins.- 5. Colonial Restitution and Indigenous Vessels of Intercultural Performance: The Stalled Repatriation of the Akwiten Grandfather Canoe; Jason King.- 6. Interculturalism, Humanitarianism, Intervention: Théâtre du Soleil in Kabul; Emine Fisek.- 7. 'Zones of occult instability': A South African Perspective on Negotiating Colonial Afterlives through Intercultural Performance; Yvette Hutchison.- 8. New Modernist Mediations and the Intercultural Theatre of Modern Times Stage Company; Ric Knowles.- 9. Censorship and Sensitivities: Performing Tolerance in Postsecular Britain; Brian Singleton.- 10. Playful Yellowness: Rescuing Interculturalism from Post/trans-racial Orientalism; Daphne P. Lei.- 11. 'Recognize My Face': Phil Lynott, Scalar Interculturalism and the Nested Figure; Justine Nakase.- 12. Intercultural Performance Ecologies in the Making: Minor(ity) Theatre and the Greek Crisis; Natasha Remoundou.- 13. 'The Future Market and the Current Reality': Zaimoglu/Senkel's Black Virgins and Interculturalism in the German Context; Lizzie Stewart.- 14. Intercultural Dialogue as 'New' Interculturalism: Terra Nova Productions, the Arrivals Project and the Intercultural Performative; Charlotte McIvor.
About the author
Charlotte McIvor is Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is the author of Migration and Performance: Towards a New Interculturalism (Palgrave, 2016) and co-editor of multiple edited collections on intercultural performance, migration, devised and contemporary performance practices.
Jason King is Academic Coordinator of the Irish Heritage Trust. He has held previous appointments at the National University of Ireland in Cork, Galway and Maynooth, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, and Concordia University.
Summary
This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism.
