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A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (review)

Pacific Performances brings to light the small and large episodes in the performative development of South Pacific cultures and identities in a way that invites us to follow in his footsteps, to linger where he rushes, and instead of being content with a glimpse of these fascinating examples, perhaps to stop and look more closely, more critically at the complex theatricalities of cross-cultural exchanges. As a calculated contribution to the ongoing study of the interactions between performance and colonization, Balme’s book extends the map to a region that theatre and performance scholars are only recently starting to explore. It should serve to provoke those of us who are living and working in this region— along with those who are simply passing through— to look again at the performances around us and to think historically and politically about the theatricalities with which we engage in the act of crosscultural encounter, and, in so doing, give us new ideas about turangawaewae—where we come from and how we come to be standing here now.