This article reviews the 2003 Venice Theatre Biennale, with particular focus on the choices made by its artistic director, Peter Sellars, whose agenda was multicultural and who focused on societies that aspired to economic justice in the twenty-first century. Featured productions are the Cambodian choreographer Sophiline Cheam Sapiro's Samritechak, a version of Othello, and Lemi Ponifasio's Samoa-based Paradise, performed by Mau, the theatre dance ensemble he founded to speak for a group of Pacific islands.

Venice Theatre Biennale 2003: visionaries and peacemakers, building and rebuilding / M.L. Rose. - In: STUDIES IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE. - ISSN 1468-2761. - 24:1(2004), pp. 55-62. [10.1386/stap.24.1.55/0]

Venice Theatre Biennale 2003: visionaries and peacemakers, building and rebuilding

M.L. Rose
Primo
2004

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This article reviews the 2003 Venice Theatre Biennale, with particular focus on the choices made by its artistic director, Peter Sellars, whose agenda was multicultural and who focused on societies that aspired to economic justice in the twenty-first century. Featured productions are the Cambodian choreographer Sophiline Cheam Sapiro's Samritechak, a version of Othello, and Lemi Ponifasio's Samoa-based Paradise, performed by Mau, the theatre dance ensemble he founded to speak for a group of Pacific islands.
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