Lepage and Mnouchkine Collide with Cultural Appropriation

Michel Vaïs is a theatre critic living in Montreal. Formerly an actor and director and professor, he is currently an editor of the theatre review Jeu. He is secretary general of the International Association of Theatre Critics. This text is a modified version of a lecture he gave at the 29th IATC Congress under the general title Performing Arts Today: Freedom and (In)tolerance on November 14, 2018 at St. Petersburg. It was published originally in the web journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics, Critical Stages/Scènes critiques #19, July 2019.