Contemporary group theatre in Kolkata, India /

"This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture "the Bengali group theatre." Arnab Banerji fills two lacunas in contemporary theatre scholarship. First, the materialist semiotic approach to studying a non-Western theatre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Banerji, Arnab (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:	Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
Subjects:	Amateur theater > India > Kolkata > History. Amateur theater > India > West Bengal > History. Amateur theater. India > Kolkata. India > West Bengal. History.

Table of Contents:

Setting the Stage: An Introduction
The City and its Theatre. The City of Kolkata
The Evolution of the Bengali Group Theatre
The Material Conditions of Bengali Group Theatre. Can you Train to be a Labor: Training in and for the Bengali Group Theatre
No Space to Call Home
In the Corridors of Shastri Bhavan
Funding Theatre in Kolkata
From the Page to the Stage
organization and rehearsal in Bengali Group Theatre
Case Studies. Rang-Roop: Good ol' Bengali Group Theatre
Revolution Through Play: The Theatre of Theatre Formation Paribartak
The Materialist Semiotics of Bengali Group Theatre
Some Concluding Thoughts.