Cirrus@Austlit

'This article looks beyond this traditional role attributed to the performing arts, arguing that the function of creating cultural identities can be extended to reviews of performances for daily newspapers and specialist journals. Applying this area of investigation to intercultural and cross-cultural performances in an Australian and German context, the analysis will examine how critics of the performing arts have expressed their relationship with the Other culture(s) presented on stage and what role cultural stereotypes have played in this context. Moreover, how have these relationships with the Other culture(s) led to a definition of what these critics perceive as their own culture?' (p. 50)