From Stage to Nukkad. Tracing the Indian Theatrical Genealogy

ISBN-13: 9783668351745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 36 str.

Sayan Dey

Opis

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, grade: 2, Banaras Hindu University (Department of English), course: PhD, language: English, abstract: The Theatre stage has always been a limited structure with actors and props interacting, refuting, co-existing and sometimes overlapping each other over a large milieu patiently observing them through a continuous process of association and disassociation. There was a time when theatre was narrowly limited within a handful of intellectual beings but with Diderot shattering the fourth wall, the stage moved closer to the audience. With the advent of street theatre (nukkad) the Indian theatrical scene could successfully disentangle themselves from the spatially and ideologically limited stage norms and introduce a free-flowing space for expressions. Playwrights like Safdar Hashmi and Badal Sircar actively practiced this form of theatre and often the audience became a part of enactments. This paper addresses how the stage aesthetics could be made culturally and socio-religiously relevant by transporting the stage from the high podium into the streets.

O autorze

Mr. Sayan Dey is a Research Scholar from Department of Engish, Banaras HIndu University in Varanasi, India. He has been working in the field of de-coloniality since 3 years. His current research topic is "Pragmatics of De-colonial Existence in the Selected Plays of Mahesh Elkunchwar." Recently he has received the German Research Foundation grant to attend a conference at Bremen University in Germany. He has also received the International Young Scientist Award in 2015 for presenting the best paper in the field of Language and Literature at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. This award was presented by International Science Congress Association. His first book "Rebuilding the Nation: An Evolutionary Approach" was published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. Besides publishing several scholarly articles in innumerable national and international journals he is also the assistant editor in the Socrates Journal of Language and Literature and the English Language Expert in Socrates Journal of Philosophy.