ABSTRACT
Max Haiven, an academic at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, has recently produced a remorseless appraisal of contemporary capitalism. In contemporary institutions of education and art, social justice has become a kind of rallying cry. It is difficult to find theatre companies that do not declare, to some degree, their commitment to social justice or to socially engaged theatre making. Edward Gallagher lived Ecological thinking, as described by Canadian philosopher Lorraine Code, and cooperation, as defined by social theorist Richard Sennett, offer compelling theoretical proposals for any theory of social justice in drama. He behaved as though human dignity was the equal right of everyone no matter one's station, race, gender. He act as though social justice was an entirely realizable goal and that it required both a deep analysis of the historical and present systems of inequality and a generous leap of the imagination.
