W2: Intercultural Theatre Images

Videos and Images for Warwick Group 2. Intercultural theatre

Bollywood - 'Bride and Prejudice' - cross-cultural themes

W2: Keyword "Intercultural Theatre"

We discussed this term in the light of cultural borrowing, for example Peter Brook’s ‘borrowing’ of the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, which was done with an essentially ethnographic perspective on the narrative, thus, the play lost its ‘essence’ as the epic was diluted of its historical context.

The idea of intercultural theatre aims to source ‘material’ (this being used in a broad sense) from different locations to create work that is representative of these multi source cultures. This underscores a sense of collective identity in a syncretic expression where multiple histories are portrayed.