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 Brooks Mahabharata; Cixous/Mnouchkines Indiande; and Barbas 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.
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