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Is genuine intercultural performance possible? Discuss with reference to specific debates on cross-cultural/intercultural performance. In the Post-Modern society, ‘culture’ is a buzzword. It has replaced ‘community’ as the modern obsession. In the West we are fixated with anxieties concerning our identity. Traditional spiritual beliefs are waning, we are held together less and less by a common moral code, and our lives and sense of self are becoming increasingly fragmented. Therefore we turn to the ‘other’ in the hope that we will find out who we are by identifying who we are not. However, with cultural pluralism, things are not so black-and-white (sic). Western countries are becoming increasingly cosmopolitan. Mixed-race families are on the increase, and if one walks down the high street of many European cities one is as likely to hear Bhangra house as Western pop music. Cultures are becoming blended, and with the globalisation of the economy this will only be magnified. Shops all over the world stock Mars bars, and McDonalds proudly claims that its aim is to have an outlet in every town in the world. In reaction to this, there is a counter-culture. New-Ageism has brought about an increasing interest in things East