So near, yet so far : Badal Sircar's third theatre /
An influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925-2011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. His own brand of experimental discourse the 'Third Theatre' is an urban theatre that is characterised by flexibility,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | An influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925-2011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. His own brand of experimental discourse the 'Third Theatre' is an urban theatre that is characterised 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 Sircar's career and traces the journey of theatre in 19th-century Bengal from folk culture to the proscenium to open-air performances. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199086566 0199086567 0199464774 9780199464777 |