Interculturalism and Performance Now

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?; 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 Fişek.- 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.