A Case Study of the Intercultural Production of Väike Jumalanna (The Little Goddess)

A devising theatre practitioner, Izumi Ashizawa has been facing the challenges and privileges of creating multi-lingual and intercultural works in di erent countries for the past 15 years. Each project presented its own unique developmental process, based on the speci c traits of the local actors, designers and technicians. In this essay, Ashizawa examines the collaborative creative process of an original intercultural musical puppet play Väike Jumalanna (The Little Goddess) that she wrote and directed at the National Estonian Drama Theatre (Eesti Draamateater) in Tallinn, Estonia, in January 2018. The article investigates the creative process of a multicultural/ multilingual musical production from an artist’s perspective.