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Contemporary culture, politics and new developments in theatre form, institutions and technologies have redefined alternative theatre and its relationship to the mainstream. That alternative theatre both reflects and reacts against mainstream obsessions is apparent in its concern with spectacle, new technologies, the body, performance/performativity, the notion of 'event', but there are also shared interests in terms of issues, such as multi-culturalism and globalisation, environmentalism, gender, nationalism/nationhood, identity, disaffection with traditional politics and questions around bodily modification and interventions, cybernetic and virtual bodies.

Contemporary culture, politics and new developments in theatre form, institutions and technologies have redefined alternative theatre and its relationship to the mainstream. That alternative theatre both reflects and reacts against mainstream obsessions is apparent in its concern with spectacle, new technologies, the body, performance/performativity, the notion of 'event', but there are also shared interests in terms of issues, such as multi-culturalism and globalisation, environmentalism, gender, nationalism/nationhood, identity, disaffection with traditional politics and questions around bodily modification and interventions, cybernetic and virtual bodies.

Contemporary culture, politics and new developments in theatre form, institutions and technologies have redefined alternative theatre and its relationship to the mainstream. That alternative theatre both reflects and reacts against mainstream obsessions is apparent in its concern with spectacle, new technologies, the body, performance/performativity, the notion of 'event', but there are also shared interests in terms of issues, such as multi-culturalism and globalisation, environmentalism, gender, nationalism/nationhood, identity, disaffection with traditional politics and questions around bodily modification and interventions, cybernetic and virtual bodies.