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Playwright at the Centre / Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present - HARDBACK

Playwright at the Centre / Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present - HARDBACK

Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present - HARDBACK Published by

This volume studies the strong playwriting tradition in Maharashtra which is central to its theatre activity This pathbreaking study takes a close look at two streams of secular, urban theatre-the touring…

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Political Plays - A Man in Dark Times & Past One o’Clock & A Passage to Darkness

Political Plays - A Man in Dark Times & Past One o’Clock & A Passage to Darkness

G. P. Deshpande trans Shanta Gokhale & Arundhati Deosthale Published by Seagull Theatre

This cycle of three plays deals with the impact on human beings, and their relationships, of the collapse of the Communist ideal, and the vacuum left by the loss of belief G. P.Deshpande is a Marxist scholar,…

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Reflection & Flower of Blood - Two Plays

Reflection & Flower of Blood - Two Plays

Mahesh Elkunchwar trans Shanta Gokhale Published by Seagull Theatre

Flower of Blood and Reflection presents two young men - or maybe they are one and the same - both loners from a small town lost in the metropolis, where one is used as a live booty over which a mother…

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Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s & Karima’s City - Two One-act Plays

Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s & Karima’s City - Two One-act Plays

3 Male, 3 Female

Yussef El Guindi from Salwa Bakr Published by Dramatists Play Service

In its first few pages Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s transports you to another world Here, Islam hangs in the very air you breathe; spirits, or Jinns, may lurk near; flattering dresses and lipstick…

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That Which Ram Hath Ordained or The Tale of Manna Seth

That Which Ram Hath Ordained or The Tale of Manna Seth

Mrinal Pande Published by Seagull Theatre

This clever, witty comedy by Hindi playwright Mrinal Pande is a ‘folktale standing on its head’, rich in ironical content as it holds up to satirical comment the relationship between the privileged…

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The Black Album - The Play

The Black Album - The Play

Hanif Kureishi Published by Faber & Faber
9780571251322

An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists But it’s 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer,…

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The Businessman

The Businessman

5 Male, 2 Female

Yakup Almelek trans Alvin Parmar Published by arion
9789944070928

The hero of the play, super-rich Aydin Tuna, is one of the country’s most successful businessmen Until the day he finds out that he has an untreatable illness In this play translated from the Turkish…

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The Conference of the Birds

The Conference of the Birds

7 Male, 6 Female

Jean-Claude Carriere & Peter Brook from Farid Uddi Attar Published by Dramatic Publishing
C55

This play presents you and your actors with an occasion for imagination and magic. The only suggestion of a set is a large oriental carpet ... "The play itself is a flying carpet, gliding us aloft into…

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The Death of Abbie Hoffman and Other Plays - On the Double & The Sulpican Experiment

The Death of Abbie Hoffman and Other Plays - On the Double & The Sulpican Experiment

Rana Bose Published by Seagull Theatre

Hard-hitting, quick-moving, visually striking and very contemporary, these plays show Bose at his best

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