In this chapter, I reflect on the process of reading/watching performed texts, with particular focus on translation as a tool of communicating across cultures. Analysing and translating the performative text is a complex process that involves doing many things at once—watching and interpreting verbal and non-verbal performance, transcribing and translating the spoken word in a way that preserves the intended meaning as well as maintaining the performativity of the source text in the translation. The chapter delineates the complexities of translating a local text to a global audience. Speaking a local idiom to a global audience requires not only the ability to translate words but also the ability to capture and convey meaning embedded in performance—body movements, gestures, poses etc. I argue that the back-and-forth involved in the reading and translation of performed texts resembles what Elleke Boehmer (2018) calls postcolonial poetics in her reading of postcolonial literature because it is a dialogical, conversational and open-ended process.