Volume 2.4 (June 2003)
Cover photo: David Hou

Aesthetics and Representation
Editorial by Edward Little

4 - Robert Lepage’s Zulu Time—A Colonialist Fantasy.
Rahul Varma looks at how Lepage’s use of technology in Zulu Time creates a smokescreen masking colonialist assumptions and a world view defined by US militarism.

6 - Bridging Art with Activism: In Conversation with Gabriel Levine of Le Petit Théâtre de l’Absolu
Tamar Tembeck writes about her experience with a young Montreal company whose activist puppet theatre is using history to rekindle revolutionary flames and tackle contemporary social issues.

8 - Red Sky Performance.
Rebecca Todd looks at how Toronto-based Red Sky Performance meshes dance, music, storytelling, and theatre to integrate Native artistic tradition and contemporary dance to bring the more-than-human world alive.

11 - 1258.
Ehab Lotayef’s poetry raises questions of social justice through an implicit comparison of historical and current suffering in Baghdad.

12 - A Delivery from Chile—Letters for Tomas.
Penny Joy reports on Puente Theatre’s adaptation of a Chilean play about mentally disabled children that spans cultural difference to communicate directly to the heart.

13 - Araylton A. Públio: The Rehabilitation of a Playwright by Means of Cordel.
Geraldo Ferreira de Lima examines how the Brazilian tradition of the cordel has inspired a new dimension in the work of playwright Araylton A. Públio: shifting his vision from the elite to the dispossessed.

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