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A Critical Stage - The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan

A Critical Stage - The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan - HARDBACK Published by Seagull Theatre

Starting with examining the reasons why theatre failed to take root and develop in Pakistan, this book studies the critical role played by ‘alternative’ or ‘parallel’ theatre in the civil society of Pakistan…

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Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods - The Ramlila at Ramnagar - HARDBACK

Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods - The Ramlila at Ramnagar - HARDBACK

Anuradha Kapur Published by Seagull Theatre

The work documents and recreates an event; provides a rare insight into an Indian community’s negotiation with religious lore; unravels and explores a unique theatrical tradition; offers us a piece…

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Asian American Drama - 9 Plays from the Multi-ethnic Landscape

Asian American Drama - 9 Plays from the Multi-ethnic Landscape

Brian Nelson - ed Published by Applause Books
1557833141

Includes: Day Standing on its Head (Philp Kan Gotanda) * Tokyo Bound (Amy Hill) * Hiro (Denise Uyehara) * S.A.M. I Am (Dwight Omata) * and more

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Banchharam’s Orchard & An Encounter With Royalty

Banchharam’s Orchard & An Encounter With Royalty

Manoj Mitra trans Ranjan and Sangeeta Ghoshal Published by Seagull Theatre

Banchharam’s Orchard is a farcical comedy by Bengali playwright Manoj Mitra and tells us the hilarious tale of old Banchharam who, by his refusal to die, out-manoeuvres all those who are waiting…

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Between Worlds - Contemporary Asian-American Plays

Between Worlds - Contemporary Asian-American Plays

Misha Berson & Laurence Yep & Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn Published by Theatre Communications
1559360046

Edited with an Introduction by Misha Berson Includes: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong; The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda; Tenement Lover: no palm trees/in new york city by Jessica…

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Chakravyuha

Chakravyuha

Ratan Thiyam with Pre-text and performance text by Kavita Nagpal Published by Seagull Theatre

As well as the complete performance text of the Play, this volume includes a close study by Kavita Nagpal of Ratan Thiyam’s theatre, its history and development, based on intensive field work and…

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Chanakya Vishnugupta

Chanakya Vishnugupta

G. P. Deshpande trans Maya Pundit Published by Seagull Theatre

Veteran Marathi playwright and Marxist intellectual G. P. Deshpande turns to India’s ancient past to pinpoint the historical moment of empire in the context of the history of the empire He sees in…

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Charandas Chor

Charandas Chor

Habib Tanvir trans Anjum Katyal Published by Seagull Theatre

This play by veteran playwright/director Habib Tanvir, performed by Naya Theatre’s Chhatisgarhi folk artists, is a contemporary Indian classic As well as the translated playscript, this volume…

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Conference of the Birds

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…

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Contemporary Asian American Plays - Version 3

Contemporary Asian American Plays - Version 3

Chay Yew - editor Published by Theatre Communications
9781559363631

This major anthology of contemporary Asian American offers the following ... Julia Cho’s DurangoSunil Kuruvilla’s Rice BoyHan Ong’s Swoony PlanetSung Rno’s WaveDiana Son’s BoyAlice Tuan’s Last of the SunsAnd…

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Contemporary Plays by Women of Color - An Anthology of 16 Plays

Contemporary Plays by Women of Color - An Anthology of 16 Plays

Kathy Perkins & Roberta Uno - eds Published by Routledge
415113784

This anthology crosses between women's studies, ethnic studies, and literature, compiling plays written by contemporary women of color. This is the first anthology devoted to a cross-section of ethnic…

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Dramatic Moments - Theatre in Calcutta since the 60s - HARDBACK

Dramatic Moments - Theatre in Calcutta since the 60s - HARDBACK

Nemai Ghoshl Published by Seagull Theatre

Nemai Ghosh is best known for his photographs of Satyajit Ray at work and in his more private moments and moods, and his stills from Ray’s films Ghosh has exhibited at Cannes in 1991, at London in…

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Egyptian-Arabic One Act Plays - A First Reader - Not English language - Arabic only

Egyptian-Arabic One Act Plays - A First Reader - Not English language - Arabic only

Karl-G Prasse & Katrine Blandford & Elizabeth A Moesstrup & Imam El-Shoubary Published by Museuam Tusculanum Press
9788772896120

Written in Arabic, this is meant to be a First Reader in Egyptian-Arabic drama for European students Each of the five short plays has its own peculiarities and dialect, but each is presented in both Arabic…

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Fourteen Songs & Two Weddings and a Funeral

Fourteen Songs & Two Weddings and a Funeral

Sudha Bhuchar & Kristine Landon-Smith Published by Methuen

Pooja falls in love with Rajesh. Prem, Rajesh’s brother, falls in love with Nisha, Pooja’s sister. But when Pooja dies suddenly and in tragic circumstances, Pooja finds herself betrothed to…

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From Inner Worlds to Outer Space

From Inner Worlds to Outer Space

Dan Kwong & Robert Vorlicky - ed Published by University of Mitchigan
472068660

The Multimedia Performances of Dan Kwong includes scripts - Tales From the Fractured Mao & Monkhood in Three Easy Lessons & The Dodo Vacine & Correspondence of a Dangerous Enemy Alien Dan Kwong's groundbreaking…

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Great Scenes From Minority Playwrights - 74 Scenes of Cultural Diversity

Great Scenes From Minority Playwrights - 74 Scenes of Cultural Diversity

Marsh Cassidy - ed Published by Meriwether Press

This Collection of scenes by outstanding minority playwrights also includes a history of Minority Theatre and a Chapter on working with the scenes It's divided into the following five Categories ... Native-American…

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Honiefaith - ePlay Download

Honiefaith - ePlay Download

4 Male, 2 Female

Monty DiPietro Published by Cyberpress

When a Filipino hostess' dismembered body is discovered in a Tokyo coin locker, Manila newspaper reporter Victor Balmori is dispatched to Japan Balmori is looking for a story, he finds a nightmare Honiefaith…

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Kaahini

Kaahini

Maya Chowdhry Published by Capercaille Books
954520645

A highly original yet thoroughly accessible insight into what it means to be young, Asian and British Filled with the powerful and contradictory emotions of adolescence, Kaahini is brightly coloured, full…

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Lute Song

Lute Song

9 Male, 6 Female

Sidney Howard & Will Irwin Published by Dramatic Publishing
L36

      “Life is the remedy for optimism,” states the Honorable Tchang in this enchanting play, and Lute Song, as originally produced in Peking in 1404, has had a continuous stage…

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Mareech -  The Legend & Jagannath

Mareech -  The Legend & Jagannath

Arun Mukherjee trans Himani Banerji and Utkal Mohanty Published by Seagull Theatre

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…

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Market of Lives & Meat Party & A Graveyard for the Living

Market of Lives & Meat Party & A Graveyard for the Living

5 Male, 3 Female

Duong Le Quy Published by Currency Press

These Vietnamese plays are a plea for confession, for the restoration of old community loyalties and the expiation of past actions In Market of Lives, the village market is to be demolished to make way…

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Memories in Hiding

Memories in Hiding

Tooppil Bhaasi trans Phillip Zarrilli & Jose George Published by Seagull Theatre

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…

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Mr Sapatnekar’s Child & Four Billion Forgetfuls

Mr Sapatnekar’s Child & Four Billion Forgetfuls

Makarand Sathe trans Jayant Deshpande with Introduction by Mahesh Elkunchwar Published by Seagull Theatre

In Sapatnekar’s Child a couple can’t conceive and the tension rises between them as the husband encourages the wife to resort to artificial insemination, and yet is torn by the insecurities…

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights

Large Mixed Cast

Tim Supple from Hanan al-Shaykh Published by Methuen
9781408159613

Adaptation for adults of the world’s great folk story-cycles adapted for the stage by leading theatre maker Tim Supple, from the stories written by the seminal Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh This unique…

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