Interculturalism and Performance Now (eBook)

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.

​1 Introduction: New Directions?Part I New Interculturalism as Methodology2 From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico3 Routes and Routers of Interculturalism: Islands, Theatres and Shakespeares4 Rethinking Interculturalism Using Digital ToolsPart II Redirecting Intercultural Traffic5 Colonial Restitution and Indigenous Vessels of Intercultural Performance: The Stalled Repatriation of the Akwiten Grandfather Canoe6 Interculturalism, Humanitarianism, Intervention: Théâtre du Soleil in Kabul7 “Zones of Occult Instability”: A South African Perspective on Negotiating Colonial Afterlives Through Intercultural Performance8 New Modernist Mediations and the Intercultural Theatre of Modern Times Stage CompanyPart III Intersectional Interculturalisms9 Censorship and Sensitivities: Performing Tolerance in Postsecular Britain10 Playful Yellowness: Rescuing Interculturalism from Millennial Orientalism11 “Recognize My Face”: Phil Lynott, Scalar Interculturalism, and the Nested FigurePart IV Migrant Interculturalisms12 Intercultural Performance Ecologies in the Making: Minor(ity) Theatre and the Greek Crisis13 “The Future Market and the Current Reality”: Zaimoglu/Senkel’s Black Virgins and Interculturalism in the German Context14 Intercultural Dialogue as ‘New’ Interculturalism: Terra Nova Productions, the Arrivals Project and the Intercultural Performative