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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…
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…
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 Interview - ePlay Download
3 Male, 1 Female
A bright, young man, holding his resume close, waits nervously at the reception of one of the country's largest corporations Moments later he is called in for his job interviewBut nothing he learnt in…
The Living Tale of Hirma
Hirma Dev, the messianic and headstrong ruler of a tribal state called Titur Basna, comes into direct conflict with a state determined to replace the traditional tribal way of life with so-called democratic…
The Peter Brook/Jean Claude Carriere Mahabharata - The History of Mankind
This is the full text of the Brook/Carriere adaptation of the classic Indian poem The Mahabharata is 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in any language. It is one of the founding epics of Indian…
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 Wada Trilogy
With this trilogy, Mahesh Elkunchwar achieves a feat unique to playwriting in this country: developing a cycle which moves between many registers to unfold the evoloving history of a family in present-day…
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…
Twist in the Folktale
“What could possibly ally a southern fertility drama from Karnataka, an eastern tale from Manipur about a bird family fighting a cat, and a northern story rendered into Chhattisgarhi about a truthful…
