Volume 3.3 (December 2004)
Cover Photo: Lainie Basman

3 - Theatre and Public Response
Editorial by Edward Little.

4 - The Controversy surrounding Behzti (Dishonour).
Jaswant Guzder and Rahul Varma address the ideological and political implications of a British Sikh community’s violent protests to Gurpreet Bhatti’s new play that confronts the complicity of social and religious structures in the sexual abuse of women.

7 - Art the Constant
Bobo Vian’s poem reflects on the constancy of art amidst the competing fundamentalisms of past and present.

8 - Art on the Line: Le Petit Théâtre de l’Absolu on tour in the West Bank.
Gabriel Levine writes about his company’s belief in the need for theatre to do more than simply bear witness to human suffering as they take their puppet theatre into Occupied Palestine.

10 - Theatre for Education in Oaxaca, Mexico: An Interview with Pedro Guillermo Castellanos Lemus.
Tamar Tembeck speaks with the artistic director of Mexico’s Grupo de Teatro Crisol about that company’s use of theatre as popular education and a catalyst for environmental development and sustainability in remote regions of Oaxaca.

13 - Cultures in the City or a City of Cultures?
Zab Maboungou reports on developments in Quebec proceeding from Stand Firm—the Canada Council’s strategic initiative aimed at equal access and equal participation by minority artists in the development and dissemination of Canadian arts.

14 - Flat Categories: A Review of Marc Maufort’s Transgressive Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism.
Kate Bligh takes issue with the enduring colonial assumptions and reductive nature of Marc Maufort’s postcolonial categorization of “Mainstream,” “Multicultural,” and “Aboriginal” theatre in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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