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Our Stage

Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India

Edited by : Sudhanva Deshpande, Sameera Iyengar, Akshara K. V.

9788189487614

Tulika Books 2009

Language: English

236 Pages

6.25 x 9.5 Inches

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Price INR 350.0 Not Available

Book Club Price INR 262.5 USD

About the Book

Theatre practice in India is like the country itself – vast, diverse, pulsating. Theatre in India happens anywhere and everywhere – in badly designed auditoria, in schools and colleges, in parks and gardens, in restaurants, on rooftops, in the open fields, on the streetcorner, and even, sometimes, on moving trains. At times, it gives pure delight and touches aesthetic peaks, at others, it is brazen, rude, outspoken, blunt – or both simultaneously.


And yet, surprisingly, the actual practice of theatre in India – beyond the work of this or that practitioner – remains vastly undertheorized.


In Our Stage: Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India, leading theatre practitioners, administrators and scholars, social scientists and activists interrogate theatre practice in India around the themes Locales, Experiments, Assertions, Pathologies, New Realities, and Training and Institutions. They also interrogate the implicit and explicit premises and projections of the 1956 Drama Seminar. Together, they give a fascinating insight on how theatre happens in India, as well on the most important issues animating this practice.

Sudhanva Deshpande
Sudhanva Deshpande is a theatre director and theatre and film actor. He has been a member of Jana Natya Manch since 1987. He has co-directed two films on the theatre legend Habib Tanvir and his company Naya Theatre. He is the author of Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi (LeftWord 2020), editor of Theatre of the Streets: The Jana Natya Manch Experience (Janam 2007), and co-editor of Our Stage: Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India (Tulika 2008). He has held teaching positions at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Since 1998, he has been Managing Editor, LeftWord Books.

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Sameera Iyengar

Sameera Iyengar is co-founder of Junoon, an organization that believes that living with the arts is a fundamental right, and works to make this a possibility for people across India. Sameera graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MA) in Mathematics, and got a PhD focusing on theatre in India from the University of Chicago, USA. She worked for a short while with Seagull Theatre Quarterly. Previous to Junoon, she was Director Projects, Prithvi Theatre.

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Akshara K. V.

Akshara K. V. got theatre training at the National School of Drama, New Delhi, and MA in theatre arts from the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK. He is associated with Ninasam group of organizations as a teacher, theatre director and administrator. He also heads Akshara Prakashana, a prominent Kannada publishing house.

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