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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture
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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture Paperback - 1991

by Patrice Pavis

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  • Title Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture
  • Author Patrice Pavis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 1991-12-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780415060387_pod
  • ISBN 9780415060387 / 0415060389
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.56 x 5.46 x 0.52 in (21.74 x 13.87 x 1.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Drama, Intercultural communication
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-17519
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.484

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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 major recent productions are analysed, including Peter Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust. These focus discussions on translation, appropriation, adaptation, cultural misunderstanding, and theatrical exploration. Never losing sight of the theatrical experience, Pavis confronts problems of colonialism, anthropology, and ethnography. This signals a radical movement away from the director and the word, towards the complex relationship between performance, performer, and spectator.
Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the foreign' culture speaks for itself.