Manujendra Kundu

Gebundenes Buch

So Near, Yet So Far

Badal Sircar's Third Theatre

Beschreibung

An influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (19252011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. His own brand of experimental discoursethe Third Theatreis an urban theatre that is characterized by flexibility, intermingling of the performer and the audience to bring the two closer to each other, and low cost of production. The book covers Sircars career and traces the journey of theatre in nineteenth-century Bengal from folk culture to the proscenium to open-air performances.

Autor

Manujendra Kundu holds a PhD from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. A journalist by profession, he is now working on the intellectual contradictions in literary-academic productions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199464777
• ISBN-10: 0199464774
• Artikelnr.: 47865894