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A Chekhovian look at members of the ‘creative’ set in an Indian metropolis, with their pretensions, rivalries, aspirations, and frustrations, even as they are stalked like a guilty conscience…
Performative Circumstances from the Avant Garde to Ramila
This collection of essays studies a wide range of performing circumstances - aboriginal initiation rites and rituals, traditional dance and theatre forms in Asia, Africa and Australia, and avant garde…
Performative Circumstances from the Avant Garde to Ramila
This collection of essays studies a wide range of performing circumstances - aboriginal initiation rites and rituals, traditional dance and theatre forms in Asia, Africa and Australia, and avant garde…
Playwright at the Centre / Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present - HARDBACK
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…
Political Plays - A Man in Dark Times & Past One o’Clock & A Passage to Darkness
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,…
Reflection & Flower of Blood - Two Plays
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…
Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s & Karima’s City - Two One-act Plays
3 Male, 3 Female
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…
That Which Ram Hath Ordained or The Tale of Manna Seth
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…
The Black Album - The Play
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,…
The Businessman
5 Male, 2 Female
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…
The Death of Abbie Hoffman and Other Plays - On the Double & The Sulpican Experiment
Hard-hitting, quick-moving, visually striking and very contemporary, these plays show Bose at his best
The Dread Departure
In an unusually irreverent text that plays with the traditional Marathi musical mode of the mourning keertan and the theme of death, Satish Alekar’s The Dread Departure tells the story of a dead…
The Ramayana
Large Mixed Cast
The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set free his wife Sita from the demon Ravana This divine story, here set forth in dramatic form, encapsulates…
The Right to Rule & The Domain of the Sun
In The Right to Rule the characters, images and language are characteristic of myth, being non-realistic and non-representational The Domain of the Sun is a re-working of the story of of the Ramayana,…
The Shadow of the Tiger and Other Plays - Alibaba and the Forty Thieves & Tukra’s Dream
The three plays in this volume illustrate the broad range of Chandrasekhar Kambar’s playwriting. Celebrated as a poet in his home state of Karnataka, Kambar’s work is imbued with a poetic sensibilty,…
The Theatre of Kanhailal - Pebet & Memoirs of Africa
H. Kanhailal’s work in Manipuri theatre is at the forefront of contemporary Indian theatre. This volume takes a close look at the world of Kanhailal, in which his theatre is so firmly located Pebet…
The Wind Cries Mary
3 Male, 3 Female
Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, this is set on a college campus in the late ‘60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identity politics, we follow an extraordinary…
Theatre and the World - Performance and the Politics of Culture - HARDBACK
In this passionate and uncompromising work, Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a Third World’ perspective Arguing that Indian theatre has been appropriated…
Wild Rice
5 Male, 4 Female
Set in Adelaide, Wild Rice is a community-devised play from the stories of Vietnamese Australians The play parallels the story of a teenage boy running away from his strict father, with the story of that…
