ABSTRACT
In The Price of Empire (1989), Senator J. William Fulbright describes his belief that international educational exchange will lead participants to “some feeling and understanding of other peoples’ cultures – why they operate as they do, why they think as they do, why they react as they do – and of the differences among these cultures.” 1 Fulbright saw great implications in this experience for the future of the world: “It is possible – not very probable, but possible – that people can find in themselves, through intercultural education, the ways and means of living together in peace.” 2 The insight and empathy he sought, along with its potential to contribute to a more harmonious future for the planet, can also be cultivated in educational settings through the dramaturgical process. The dramaturg’s questioning spirit, applied to the world of a play from a country other than one’s own, can serve as a point of departure for a meaningful engagement with that culture.
