ABSTRACT
In the Conclusion, it is argued that the Third Theatre community chooses to reside on the margins of mainstream culture, maintaining a political ethos and a theatrical practice that is often in opposition to the dominant ideas and approaches supported by cultural and political authority. Third Theatre offers a way of being together for the diverse/foreign/unruly theatre practices of a range of groups and individual artists, who are united by their shared belief in the centrality of the actor’s body in performance, and the impact performance can have on the social corpus. As evidenced by the Case Studies represented in the book, and the artists affiliated with NTL, it is argued that there is a continual process of creative renewal within this transnational community, a poetics that retains Third Theatre’s sense of vibrancy and reaffirms its value as a ‘small tradition’ offering important roadmaps for performer training, dramaturgy and cultural action predicated on a laboratory attitude and an interstitial mode of practice.
