Navigating the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Theatre Project: A Postmodern Ethnographic Approach to Collaborative Intercultural Theatre
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Abstract
This paper considers critical approaches to collaborative intercultural theatre using the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Theatre Project (PTMTP) as an instrumental case study. It begins by contrasting orderly and coherent accounts of intercultural theatre with the more messy and confusing experiences of it. Taking a poststructural view of culture, this paper suggests that postmodern ethnography is well suited to access the experiential dimension of theatre work,making it a valuable addition to existing semiotic strategies and models. Looking at the kinds of insight offered by semiotic and ethnographic approaches, the author discusses a particular scene fromthe PTMTP, first suggesting how itmay have appeared to its audience in public performance and then analyzing how it was experienced and interpreted in development and performance by both himself and several of its creators. Though postmodern ethnography has its practical limitations, it is hoped that its application in this context sheds light on the meanings made available to particular critical approaches.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".