Ebrahim Alkazi : holding time captive /
"Amal Allana' s compelling biography of her father is the first carefully researched, full-length account of the life, work and times of Ebrahim Alkazi, one of the giants of twentieth-century theatre and a key promoter of the visual arts movement in India. Evoking the excitement of Alkazi&...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Haryana, India :
Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
2024.
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| Summary: | "Amal Allana' s compelling biography of her father is the first carefully researched, full-length account of the life, work and times of Ebrahim Alkazi, one of the giants of twentieth-century theatre and a key promoter of the visual arts movement in India. Evoking the excitement of Alkazi' s student years in England, the controversies that surrounded his provocative ideas to transform the theatre movement in Bombay and later in Delhi, as the director of the National School of Drama (NSD), this book charts Alkazi' s meteoric rise to the top, with his modernist staging of plays and his aim of putting Hindi theatre on the map. Staging the cultural history of India between the 1940s and 2000s, and featuring a galaxy of artists and actors as the dramatis personae - including M.F. Husain, F.N. Souza, Akbar Padamsee, Gieve Patel, Nissim Ezekiel, Alyque Padamsee, Girish Karnad, Manohar Singh, Vijaya Mehta, Kusum Haidar and Gerson da Cunha - Allana' s chronicle is charged with their fierce energy and commitment as contributors to a vibrant new India. The author' s personal perspective as Alkazi' s daughter brings to the narrative an added dimension of veracity and sensitivity. This book offers unique glimpses into an enigmatic personality whose emotionally charged life closely reflected and ran parallel to the growth and evolution of his startlingly fresh ideas and vision for a modern cultural movement in India." -- |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 647 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780670096381 0670096385 |