The Trap of Cultural Specificity: Seeking Intercultural Solidarity

Abstract

Before my move in the fall of 1989 to the remote community of Pangnirtung, NWT I had worked for over ten years with the Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre, a community-based theatre located in northeastern Nova Scotia – another isolated area, but at least Guysborough has a road you can drive away on! While I scrambled to get jobs as a playwright and actress, my husband, Ed McKenna, worked as the company’s general manager. During that time we became parents – suddenly rehearsals were places where I nursed and babies projectile-vomited. Moving to Northern Canada provided all of us with an opportunity to “get a life”.