Dissent and transgression in the creative process of the play Urmila's Dream inspired by the Rāmāyana and Kathakali dance in the context of a controversy

In 2018, two controversies erupted in Montreal around director Robert Lepage's latest creations accusing him of cultural appropriation. A few weeks later, the play Le rêve d'Urmila was presented as part of my creative laboratory for the Doctorate in Littérature et arts de la scene et de l’écran at Université Laval in Quebec City. Inspired by a myth and a traditional Indian dance, how do we deal with transgression and dissent in a creative work that is rooted in another culture?