Creative dialogue, based on freedom and equality and rooted in tolerance, between races and ethnic groups, is on going. Experimental drama is radically opposed to fundamentalist trends which sequestrate the future in order to revive the past. They perceive experimentation as the work of the devil. Unfortunately, these views permeate theories of knowledge, education and information in the Arab world. They are responsible for sustaining conservatism, for generating new taboos and for causing all that is new or experimental to be treated with suspicion and doubt.
Democracy is a prerequisite for an experimental approach, and the theatre is no exception.
This week's Soapbox speaker is a leading theatre director.