AustLit

'In Scene 9 of Back to Back Theatre’s Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, an intellectually disabled actor, Scott Price, abruptly interrupts the fictional rehearsal process involving his fellow performers, Simon Laherty, who plays a Jewish boy and Adolf Hitler, and David Woods, who plays the ‘director’ in the meta-narrative. Price asks a provocative question about the powers of representation in art, its unrestrained tendencies to appropriate, and the ethics of such dramaturgical actions. Referring to the company’s intentions and process of staging a play, which itself is also called Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (hereafter Ganesh) Price declares his discomfort with his Australian colleagues performing as Jews, German Nazis, and Hindu gods.' (Introduction)