Abstract

What is “activist theatre”? As the articles in this issue will show, it can mean a broad range of things, ranging from theatre created with specific communities to theatre that addresses pressing local issues and even theatre that attempts to engage interest in issues that are happening on a global scale. It is a kind of theatre that CTR has covered since its inception, under titles like “political theatre,” “community-based theatre” and “popular theatre” and often by relating it to particular cultural communities, as in recent issues on Chinese Canadian and Italian Canadian theatre. So why now use the term “activist”?

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