Contemporary Group Theatre In Kolkata India

Author : Arnab Banerji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000068993

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Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata, India by Arnab Banerji Pdf

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre. Arnab Banerji fills two lacunas in contemporary theatre scholarship. First, the materialist semiotic approach to studying a non-Western theatre event allows Banerji to critically examine the material conditions in which theatre is created and seen outside the Euro-American context. And second, by shifting the critical lens onto a contemporary urban theatre phenomenon from India, the book attempts to even out the scholastic imbalance in Indian theatre scholarship which has largely focused on folk and classical traditions. The book shows a refreshing new perspective toward a theatre culture that frequently escapes the critical lens in spite of being one of the largest urban theatre cultures in the world. Theatre events are a sum total of the conditions in which they are built and the conditions in which they are viewed. Studying the event separate from its materialistic beginnings and semiotic effects allow only a partial insight into the performance phenomenon. The materialist semiotic critical framework of this book locates the Bengali group theatre within its performative context and offers a heretofore unexplored insight into this vibrant theatre culture.

Author : Bratya Basu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350289444

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An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu by Bratya Basu Pdf

This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020 by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes. The six plays, freshly translated into English, each bring a uniquely Bengali and Indian perspective to the intermingling of past and present, global and local, and magical and real in a postmodern pastiche about India today. The collection is divided into three thematic sections: 1) 'Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse' examines power in Indian politics, religion, and family. 2) '(In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices' explores the relationship among democracy, nation building, and the role of women in intergenerational political struggle. 3) 'Intimately Political, Politically Intimate' navigates queer identity, mental health and the fabulation of modern Bengali life in a 21st-century India straddling the progressive politics that removed section 377 and Hindu nationalisms that stoke new conservatisms.

Author : Kristen Rudisill
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438489773

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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies by Kristen Rudisill Pdf

Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies is the first in-depth study of Sabha Theater, a type of Tamil-language popular theater that started in Chennai (Madras) in the period following India's independence, thriving especially between 1965 and 1985. Breaking new ground in the study of stage and performance, this interdisciplinary book presents a complex view of a significant genre, using historical research and ethnographic information obtained through interviews with performers, writers, and audience members, as well as observations of rehearsals, performances, and television and film shootings. This careful coverage not only contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically within the wider history of the Tamil stage and a performance scene that includes classical dance and mass media but also reveals how its plays express a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern. Analyzing what particular plays mean to the specific, urban, elite Brahmin community that produces and consumes them, Kristen Rudisill examines humor that reveals a complex Brahmin identity and surveys markers of moral superiority.

Author : Yasmine Marie Jahanmir,Jillian Campana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780429534003

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Western Theatre in Global Contexts by Yasmine Marie Jahanmir,Jillian Campana Pdf

Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures, tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which English is the non-dominant language. This edited volume examines pedagogical discoveries and teaching methods, how to produce specific plays and musicals, and how students who explore Western practices in non-Western places contribute to the art form. Offering on-the-ground perspectives of teaching and working outside of North American and Europe, the book analyzes the importance of paying attention to the local context when developing theatrical practice and education. It also explores how educators and artists who make deep connections in the local culture can facilitate ethical accessibility to Western models of performance for students, practitioners and audiences. Western Theatre in Global Contexts is an excellent resource for scholars, artists, and teachers that are working abroad or on intercultural projects in theatre, education and the arts.

Author : Daphne Lei,Charlotte McIvor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350040489

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The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance by Daphne Lei,Charlotte McIvor Pdf

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook's global coverage challenges understandings of intercultural theatre and performance that continue to prioritise case studies emerging primarily from the West and executed by elite artists. By building on a growing field of scholarship on intercultural theatre and performance that examines minoritarian and grassroots work, the volume offers an alternative and multi-vocal view of what interculturalism might offer as a theoretical keyword to the future of theatre and performance studies, while also contributing an energized reassessment of the vociferous debates that have long accompanied its critical and practical usage in a performance context. By exploring anew what happens when interculturalism and performance intersect as embodied practice, The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance offers new perspectives on a seminal theoretical concept still as useful as it is controversial. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential scholarly handbook for anyone working in intercultural theatre and performance, and performance studies.

Author : James Wenley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780429575136

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Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace by James Wenley Pdf

Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace offers a case study of how the theatre of Aotearoa has toured, represented and marketed itself on the global stage. How has New Zealand work attempted to stand out, differentiate itself, and get seen by audiences internationally? This book examines the journeys of a dynamic range of culturally and theatrically innovative works created by Aotearoa New Zealand theatre makers that have toured and been performed across time, place and theatrical space: from Moana Oceania to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, from a Māori Shakespeare adaptation to an immersive zombie theatre experience. Drawing on postcolonialism, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and globality to understand how Aotearoa New Zealand has imagined and conceived of itself through drama, the author investigates how these representations might be read and received by audiences around the world, variously reinforcing and complicating conceptions of New Zealand national identity. Developing concepts of theatrical mobility, portability and the market, this study engages with the whole theatrical enterprise as a play travels from concept and scripting through to funding, marketing, performance and the critical response by reviewers and commentators. This book will be of global interest to academics, producers and theatre artists as a significant resource for the theory and practice of theatre touring and cross-cultural performance and reception.

Author : Akihiro Odanaka,Masami Iwai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429620003

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Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century by Akihiro Odanaka,Masami Iwai Pdf

Bunraku has fascinated theatre practitioners through its particular forms of staging, such as highly elaborated manipulation of puppets and exquisite coordination of chanters and shamisen players. However, Bunraku lacks scholarship dedicated to translating not only the language but also cultural barriers of this work. In this book, Odanaka and Iwai tackle the wealth of bunraku plays underrepresented in English through rexamining their siginifcance on a global scale. Little is written on the fact that bunraku theatre, despites its elegant figures of puppets and exotic stories, was often made as a place to manifest the political concerns of playwrights in the 18th century, hence a reflection of the audience's expectation that could not have materialized outside the theatre. Japanese Political Theatre in the 18th Century aims to make bunraku texts readable for those who are interested in the political and cultural implications of this revered theatre tradition.

Author : Ewa Bal,Mateusz Chaberski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000082142

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Situated Knowing by Ewa Bal,Mateusz Chaberski Pdf

Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies’ ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline. This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway in order to challenge the Enlightenment paradigm of objectivity in sciences by emphasising the role of the embodied and partial socio-cultural perspective of the scholar in the production of knowledge. Through carefully selected case studies of contemporary natural, cultural and technological performances, contributors to this volume show that the proposed approach requires new genealogies of traditional concepts, emerges from encounters with contemporary performative arts or contact zones and may potentially go beyond the human in order to include non-human ways of being in the world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, cultural studies, media studies and theatre studies.

Author : Lara Maleen Kipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429668234

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The Scenography of Howard Barker by Lara Maleen Kipp Pdf

Influential contemporary British playwright and director Howard Barker has been engaging with the scenography of the Wrestling School’s productions since 1998. Despite this active involvement in the design of set, costume, lighting, and sound, no in-depth published study on this aspect of his work exists to date. This monograph therefore offers the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of Barker’s scenographic practice. Combining aesthetic analysis of play texts and production records with original interview materials, this book presents the first full-length foray into Barker’s scenography. It features extracts from conversations with designers working with Barker, and with Barker himself. In addition, it presents the first printed versions of select set and costume designs by Barker. With the first fully detailed analysis of Barker’s scenographic work, this book will be a vital read for scholars and postgraduates of Barker Studies, contemporary British and European drama, theatre, and scenography.

Author : Chaman Ahuja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:30000148634789

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Contemporary Theatre of India by Chaman Ahuja Pdf

"The present book seeks to provide a generic introduction to the contemporary theatre scenario in different parts of India. Researched and written over a period of nearly a decade, it adopts an approach that may be best termed as quasi-academic and quasi-journalistic. Primarily, it affords understanding as well as interpretation of the trends, experiments and major works; but, in the process, it takes up serious issues for closer scrutiny. Nevertheless, the overall tone and tenor continue to be rather informal throughout. the book was born of interaction with both established and uprising exponents of the theatre arts -- playwrights, directors, performers, designers, critics, etc.; but it purposefully eschews critical or technical jargon. Ultimately, what we get is a phenomenal attempt to build a comprehensive as well as a perceptive overview of the complex and ever-growing dynamics of the contemporary theatres of India as practised in various regions, languages, cultures." -- Back cover.

Author : Dani Abulhawa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000076943

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Skateboarding and Femininity by Dani Abulhawa Pdf

Skateboarding and Femininity explores and highlights the value of femininity both within skateboarding and wider culture. This book examines skateboarding’s relationship to gender politics through a consideration of the personal politics connected to individual skateboarders, the social-spatial arenas in which skateboarding takes place, and by understanding the performance of tricks and symbolic movements as part of gender-based power dynamics. Dani Abulhawa anaylses the discursive frameworks connected to skateboarding philanthropic projects and how these operate through gendered tropes. Through the author’s work with skateboarding charity SkatePal, this book offers an alternative way of recognising the value of skateboarding philanthropy projects, proposing a move toward a more open and explorative somatic practice perspective.

Author : A. Sengupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137375148

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Mapping South Asia through Contemporary Theatre by A. Sengupta Pdf

While remapping the region by examining enduring historical and cultural connections, this study discusses multiple traditions and practices of theatre and performance in five South Asian countries within their specific political and socio-cultural contexts.

Author : Kuntal Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bengali drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4555882

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Theatre and Politics by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay Pdf

Author : Utpal Kumar Banerjee
Publisher : Publicati
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bengali drama
ISBN : UCSD:31822036246429

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Bengali Theatre by Utpal Kumar Banerjee Pdf

Forty-two contributed articles.

Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.,Siyuan Liu,Erin B. Mee
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408177211

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Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000 by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.,Siyuan Liu,Erin B. Mee Pdf

Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 – 2000 is a ground-breaking survey, tracking the advent of modern drama in Japan, India, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. It considers the shaping power of realism and naturalism, the influence of Western culture, the relationship between theatrical modernisation and social modernisation, and how theatre operates in contemporary Asian society. Organised by period, nation and region, each chapter provides: ·a historical overview of the culture; ·an outline of theatre history; ·a survey of significant playwrights, actors, directors, companies, plays and productions. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this authoritative introduction will uniquely equip students and scholars with a broad understanding of the modern theatre histories of Asia.