Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre: Exploring Play

✍ Scribed by Sanjay Kumar

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on the writer’s experience of three and a half decades of performing, teaching and writing theatre, this book explores the performance practice of a theatre group (pandies’ theatre, Delhi) by placing this practice in a frame of international activist theatre movements. The teaching aspect provides a historical backdrop and the writing of plays adds depth and sharpens the political position. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society across the centuries and beyond national borders. The book examines a large variety of theatrical experiences, including well-known forms of proscenium, workshop and street theatre.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Where I Am Stood
1. Defining Incomplete
2. The Mighty Proscenium
3. Theatre and the Rise of the Right State
4. The History of Theatre is the History of Social Change
5. Scripting to Perform: Saadat Hasan Manto: Pagaleyan da Sardar (The Chief of the Lunatics)
6. More about Negotiating the Filthy Lucre - Theatre Towards Alterity, Theatre as Community
7. Workshop Theatre
8. Let’s go Offtrack (2012)
9. Theatre in Conflict/Theatre and Conflict: The Case of Kashmir
A Summing up/An Opening Out
Appendix 1: Pandies’ Theatre
Bibliography
Index