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Hidden Fires
‘You say you’re a lion, but your great-grandmother, three generations ago, she was a deer—someone told us—and that makes you a deer; And that’s your hidden fire. So we’ve got to put you out’ A man confesses…
Mahachaitra - The great Spring and Other Plays
The three plays in this volume were written and staged between 1986 and 1995, and they focus on three figures who have had a decisive influence on Kannada history and culture—Basavanna, the revolutionary…
Mareech - The Legend & Jagannath
Mareech, the Legend is a cleverly structured, intelligent, humorous look at the changing forms of exploitation through space and time, starting with the story of Mareech the demon from the Ramayana, taking…
Memories in Hiding
Tooppil Bhaasi draws on his autobiography to reconstruct an important period in the political history of Kerala just after Independence. The Suranad Revolution, which the activist-playwright re-constructs…
Orientations
4 Male, 2 Female
Amrit, a young Asian dancer, is captivated by the folk theatre form Yakshagana, where men traditionally perform the female roles When he suddenly disappears to India, his English lover Linda flies to Bangalore…
Over Under and Around - Essays on Performance and Culture
The essays collected in this book represent Schechner’s lifetime in performance studies. Political theatre, the avant garde, the secular and sacred rituals of performance, the nature of belief and…
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…
Strictly Dandia
This takes us into the competitive world of the Navratri Festival where regional and caste rivalries abound in a bid to outdo each other with smart moves and step variations An affectionate satirical tribute…
