Orientations / Border Crossings -- Dis-orientations / Border crossings -- Re-orientations/ Border Crossings -- Introduction to Orientations / Dr Sarita Malik -- Re-orientations / Mahesh Dattani -- China is rehearsing / Xinran -- The character of Song and Yueju / Ma Haili -- PK Moretti on the mean streets of Shanghai / Nancy Crane -- Conscious choices : why a play within the play? / Mia Kjellvist -- Lighting a devised intercultural performance / Nick Moran -- Brhannala / Veenapani Chawla -- Seven steps around the fire / Mahesh Dattani -- Same-sex love in Indian traditions / Ruth Vanita -- Theatre as politics -- politics as theatre : the cultural revolution / Michael Walling -- Negotiations in the uncomfortable zone : identity, tradition and the space between European and Chinese opera / Jonathan Pitches & Li Ruru -- Yue Opera: the development and practice of a traditional form / Michael Walling with Zhang Ruihong -- Gender and performance in Mahesh Dattani's Bravely fought the Queen.