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In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective.
Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised and taken out of context by Western directors and critics. And he presents a detailed dramaturgical analysis of what he describes as an...

In this investigation, Rustom Bharucha considers the realities of Islamophobia, the legacies of truth and reconciliation, the deadly certitudes of State-controlled security systems and the legitimacy of counter-terror terrorism, drawing on a vast spectrum of human cruelties across the global South.

In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective.
Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised and taken out of context by Western directors and critics. And he presents a detailed dramaturgical analysis of what he describes as an...

'This work goes where other books fear to tread.　 It reaches the parts other scholars might imagine in their dreams but would neither have the international reach nor the critical acumen and　forensic　flourish to deliver.' Alan Read, King's College London

'This book is not only timely.　 It is overdue - and it is a masterpiece unrivalled by any book I know of.'　 Erika Fischer-Lichte, Freie　Universitat Berlin

'The first and only book that focuses on the intersections of performance, terror and terrorism as played out beyond a...