ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the author's personal goal as an artist because it's also what he want as an audience member is to develop an ethnotheatre aesthetic that captures on stage a complex rendering of what he label ethnotainment: "Theatre's primary goal is to entertainto entertain ideas as it entertains its spectators. The current trends in qualitative inquiry and theatre for social change have produced not only a body of ethnodramatic work but ethnodramatic "social work". The author was invited by New York University's Program in Educational Theatre to serve as a respondent at their 2006 forum on ethnotheatre and theatre for social change. Theatre artistic director Peter Sellars speaks passionately about the art form and his charge to all of us is as follows, from his Foreword to Bowle's anthology of ethnodramas by and about gay and lesbian street youth: Theatre invented to demonstrate utterly and conclusively that you are not superior to any other human being on the planet.
