The Pedagogic and the Performative in Indian Theatre: Negotiations of a Feminist Collaborative Imagination

ISBN-13: 9783031841439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 304 str.

Indu Jain

Opis

This book foregrounds the realm of Contemporary Indian Feminist Theatre in order to explore the inter-relationships between feminist theatrical theory, practice and its historical antecedents. The study focuses on the performance processes, training methods and pedagogical vocabulary used by four Indian women directors: Anamika Haksar, Anuradha Kapur, Kirti Jain and Tripurari Sharma. The book interprets the feminist emphasis on process as extended into actor training and rehearsal dynamics, investigating its innovations as well as limitations, together with examining how successful these director-pedagogues were in bringing their gendered and radical feminist sensibilities to their work in classroom spaces.