Postdramatic Theatre and India

Theatre-Making Since the 1990s

AvAshis Sengupta,Mark Taylor-Batty

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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None of the Indian theatre-makers consciously built their works on the Euro-American model of the postdramatic, but many have used the theatre model in innovative, transnational ways. Essentially, they have adapted an originally European theatre paradigm to a different historical context and added new dimensions to it by cross-pollinating it with indigenous cultural forms.The main aim in doing so has been to invigorate the language of Indian urban theatre that had turned stale under the stronghold of realism growing out of colonial stage practice and homogeneous under the decolonizing drive of the ‘theatre of roots’ movement post-independence.Theatre in India today is rich in cross-media performance, theatre solos and monologues, pure spatial experience, plurimedial work, durational reading, real-time action, and so on.The book balances theory, contextualisation and praxis, building a hitherto non-existing archive of scholarship in Indian theatre within a postdramatic framework, and an argument for its place within contemporary Indian theatre. Interspersed throughout are Indian theatre-makers’ opinions about their contemporary performance theory and practices vis-a-vis those in Europe and the US.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-27
Mått:138 x 216 x 12 mm
Vikt:276 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Methuen Drama Engage
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350284395

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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).

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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