Crumbs from the Global Table.(lack of foreign language theater)
American Theatre, November, 2000 by Fuchs, Elinor
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Who's depriving American audiences of the great foreign-language theatre of the world?
We theatre folk--even we in New York--live in an economy of scarcity To find this out all you have to do is visit Avignon in the summer, Paris in the fall and Berlin every spring. You can also go to Montreal, Edinburgh, Adelaide and Istanbul. But in this country the idea of presenting "big" foreign-language theatre created by major artists is all but dead.
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Economies of scarcity are debilitating. One never knows whether to demean oneself with gratitude for the little that is ...
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