Abstract
India has a vibrant
culture of performances and theatres from tribal to folk to proscenium to
street-theatre to amateur performance-genres. The history of Indian theatre has
been written in terms of shastras, archeological evidences, documentations and
colonial ideological ‘trappings’. After Independence, debates revolved around
the idea of the ‘theatre of the roots’, with the National School of Drama being
established as a training institution. With it began the process of
problematizing the idea of the ‘national’ theatre. This paper attempts to open
up the discussion regarding the writing of history of the Indian theatre. It
also deals with the development of theatre in post-independent India and
attempts to make a case for the existence of many Indian theaters rather than
the idea of the singular Indian theater.
Speaker:
Gourab Ghosh, Research Scholar, CES, SL & CS, JNU
Venue:
Committee Room, Central Library, JNU
Date and Time: 28th September 2013 (Saturday), 5:00
pm
