Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto

  • Ric Knowles
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Abstract

In its promotional material the city of Toronto regularly makes two significant claims: to be the world’s most multicultural city, and to be the third most active theatre center in the English-speaking world. This chapter looks at the relationships between these claims, and positions theatrical activity within the city in relation to Canada’s official multicultural policy. It articulates multicultural texts — the policies, documents, and official discourses of Canadian multiculturalism — against intercultural performance — the complex ecology of grassroots interculturalism that plays itself out among the many intercultural theatre companies within the city who attempt to construct culturally alternative communities and solidarities across difference.

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Visible Minority Cultural Policy Artistic Director Official Discourse Theatre Company 
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