Contemporary Indian Theatre Theatricality and Artistic Crossovers

includes index and biblioraphy

Tagore`s Holistic Expression: Poet`s Vision, Singer`s Emotion, Dancer`s Body ...............13 Women Directors: Interculturalism and Repositioning of Gender in the Indian Theatre ..........25 Plot and Narration in Indian Theatre: Negotiating Boundaries of Semiotic Relationship........35 Rabindranath Tagore and his Notion of Theatre as Dance .........45 Tradition of Mediation between unhappiness and Happiness: Questioning the Happy objects in North Indian Performance Tradition .............55 There is Nothing like Nautanki: A performer`s Journey to Demystify the Appeal of a Folk Theatre Tradition ..........65 Response and Responsibilities : Creative interventions and the Dancer as a Social Being ..........87 Body and Object : Key discoveries in the Process of work with body and Object ...........103 The spoken word to Performance : A disciplined interdisciplinary praxis .............111 Glocalization of Assamese folk music and its Reflection of Local Identity .......121 Theatre and history in the Postcolony: Examining Inter-Disciplinary in two Indian Plays ..........131 Forbidden Dance ...........147 Beyond the hindu nationalist Frames: Investigating the Inception of a New Language of Theatre in Rabindranath Tagore`s Play Sarodotsav ...........163 Women`s Body as a Site of Dissent : Performing Resistance in the plays of Kathryn Blume ..........181 Drama/Theatre and Film: The Dynamics of Exchange ....193