Volume 1.1 (June 1998)
Cover Photo: Teesri Duniya Theatre

3 - Editorial
Rahul Varma explains why alt.theatre needs to be published, read and debated.

3 - House of Sonya
Floyd Favel Starr writes about his recent adaptation of Uncle Vanya set on a reserve, and about his technique of dramaturgy based on the Plains Indian Winter Count.

5 - Cultural Appropriation or Cross-Cultural Dialogue?
Ken McDonough considers whether an identity can be owned, and if so, what the risks are of enforcing ownership.

7 - Diversity: Its Promise and its Potential
Rahul Varma argues that for artists of diversity the clash of their inherited theatrical styles with those of the dominant culture are giving rise to something uniquely new and uniquely Canadian.

9 - Playwright Comes of Age with Counter Offence
Winston Sutton writes about Rahul Varma’s play.

10 - Pour le sens et la transcendence: le théâtre de Wajdi Mouawad
Paul Lefebvre nous présente la production artistique de Wajdi Mouawad, un créateur polyvalent comptant parmi les plus innovateurs et les plus authentiques du théâtre québécois.

10 - At Teesri Duniya
Shelley Tepperman describes MAKING SPARKS, a new cross-cultural play development program, and THE GENERATOR, a unique writers’ unit that reaches out to emerging allophone writers and émigré theatre artists.

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