Time-sharing on stage is welcome, first of all, as a focused contribution in the series Topics in Translation. Apart from well-known publications of the 1980s and 1990s by Susan Bassnett and Patrice Pavis, to whom Aaltonen refers several times, state-of-the-art reflections upon translation for the theatre are still very scant. Derrida, Foucault, Bhabha, Venuti, Martin Esslin and Tadeusz Kowzan are the sources of the theories that support this scholarly blend of cultural studies, translation, metatheory, and the various stances from which theatre can be approached: intercultural, intracultural, metacultural, multicultural, precultural, post-cultural, post-colonial, transcultural and ultracultural! Given its scholarly content, everyone who is eager to find new bibliography will benefit from reading this ingenious book, a truly postcolonial reference.
