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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…
Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods - The Ramlila at Ramnagar - HARDBACK
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…
Actors Pilgrims Kings and Gods - The Ramlila at Ramnagar - HARDBACK
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…
Dramatic Moments - Theatre in Calcutta since the 60s - HARDBACK
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…
Dramatic Moments - Theatre in Calcutta since the 60s - HARDBACK
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…
Dramatic Moments - Theatre in Calcutta since the 60s - HARDBACK
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…
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…
Charandas Chor
“Who’re you?’ ‘A man.’ ‘I can see that. I’m asking your name and what you do” My name is Charandas and my profession thieving. Taken together that makes…
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…
Begum Barve
In this unusual Marathi play the playwright weaves a complex narrative with just four characters – Begum Barve, a smalltime female impersonator who has spent his life playing bit roles in the professional…
Giving Away the Girl
A volume of three street plays from the women’s movement, written in the 1980s and widely performed as part of the vibrant cultural activism of the time. Giving Away the Girl and The Monkey Dance are both…
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…
Beyond the Land of Hattamala & Scandal in Fairyland
These lively plays use witty, tongue-in-cheek comedy to communicate relevant social messages. In Beyond the Land of Hattamala, Kena and Becha, two impudent thieves, jump into a river to escape being caught,…
City Plays - Party & Avinash & Lights Out
Three plays in the naturalistic mode, set within the four walls of a city apartment, throwing people into close contact, relationships unravelling tinder pressure, the moment of crisis in each case precipitated…
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…
Aurangzeb
In this masterly analysis of the conflicts that haunt an astute politician amidst a crumbling empire, the playwright weaves his narrative from the intricate interplay of historical forces leading to the…
A Critical Stage - The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
