ABSTRACT
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 were intended to provide a history and a context from whence cometh contemporary theories of cultural criticism. Some dramatic practices are included in those chapters, but serve mainly to present dramatic scenarios taken from everyday contexts and content. Once presented, these scenarios become texts open to interrogations that dismantle cultural constructions of dominance, power, privilege, marginalization, oppression, exclusion, silence, and invisibility. As discussed in Chapter 3, the major means of interrogation is the question. Questions driven by cultural studies are already a challenge; they initiate the dismantling of modern constructions of truth, knowledge, history, institutions, popular culture, language, and subjectivity. Once informed, questions, whether private or public, can find an even safer and more creative site through dramatic play and strategies.
