Acting Up Gender and Theatre in India, 1979 Onwards
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A Mangai
LeftWord Books
271 pages,Rs. 495
Theatre is about individual bodies, and the way they relate to, reflect, subvert and remake social bodies. This book looks at the conditions that shape these processes: feminist and class politics, caste, ethnicity, faith and nationalism. It explores the intersections of gender and theatre by examining the work of well-known female theatre practitioners such as Amal Allana, Maya Rao, Moloyashree Hashmi, Sabitri Debi, Tripurari Sharma, Usha Ganguli and Veenapani Chawla. The author, herself a leading feminist theatre artist, thinks her way through a new feminist idiom for contemporary theatre practice.
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