Postdramatic Theatre and India

Ashis Sengupta is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal. A recipient of Fulbright visiting scholarship (2006), he has published widely on South Asian and American theatre. His most recent publications include two edited books: Mapping South Asia through Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and a play anthology, Islam in Performance (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Hans-Thies Lehmann and Since: Postdramatic Theatre and Performance TodayContexts / Countertexts / The dramatic-postdramatic ‘binary’ / Passage towards the postdramatic / Presence / Mimesis, mediation, remediation / Postdramatic and the political / Return to the narrative and text / Performer-spectator relationship / Affect in postdramatic theatre / Postdramatic and the transnational2. Theorizing and Contextualizing India’s PostdramaticAdaptation as contribution / Theatre-makers of India: opinions and practice / India’s ‘postdramatic’ / Occasions and contexts (Autonomous women’s movement; Cold war, globalization, theatre practice; Cultural exchange, intercultural engagements, training, influences; Theatre festivals, pedagogy, entrepreneurship) / Theatre-making in India (1990-present): a summing-up.3. The Postdramatic Turn in Indian TheatreEarly adaptations / Early devised theatre4. India’s Postdramatic I‘Telling Stories across Forms’ / Politics-as-Material / Theatre of Scenography5. India’s Postdramatic IIMonologues and Theatre Solos6. India’s Postdramatic IIITheatre of Speech / Theatre-as-Event / Reality Theatre / Theatre-as-Installation7. New DirectionsBibliographyIndexViewRelated Title Changes