With reference to the practice of integrated casting, the re-workings of Synge and Chekhov by the Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura and the concept of 'tradaptation' (translation-adaptation) outlined by Asian theatre director Jatinder Verma, this essay challenges some of the traditional premises of cultural exchange in Euro-American theatre. The black and Asian diasporas' re-working and re-imagining of the West, and their place within it, re-fashions the Euro-American cultures' self-image - as well as staking a claim to a reversal of that cultural exchange which insists upon the reification of Western theatre as the pinnacle of theatrical expression.