Theatre

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Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Nautanki is an operatic theatre form combining music, dance, story, dialogue, humour, pathos, melodrama and wit in a magical whole. Nautanki, earlier known as svang, originated in the late nineteenth century in Uttar Pradesh (then United Provinces of Agra and Oudh) and…
in Overview
Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Nautanki is a popular performance genre combining story, music, dance and dialogue. It started as an all-male form of musical entertainment in Hathras during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but the theatrical dimensions of nautanki developed in the Kanpur region, from the early…
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Ansh Baid
Anurupa Roy is the founder and managing trustee of the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, a puppet theatre group based in Delhi since 1998. She has been working with the artists of Kathputli Colony in New Delhi for the past 25 years and is a major creative force in Indian puppet theatre.…
in Interview
Ansh Baid
In India, there are as many kinds of street art forms as there are regions and dialects, and where there is a likeness in form, there is variety in narrative and performative styles. Kathputli Colony in the Shadipur area of Delhi, one of the largest communities of street artists in the world, is an…
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Mithu Biswas
This text interview highlights the journeys of three avant-garde non-proscenium theatre forms in Assam as depicted by one representative practitioner from each group—Badungduppa Kalakendra of Rampur, Goalpara; Replica Theatre Village of Jorhat; and Silchar-based Chorus. These groups have cultivated…
in Interview
Mithu Biswas
Beyond the mainstream genres of theatre in Assam, experimental non-proscenium forms have taken centre stage in the last decade of the twentieth century. Indigenous folk theatre forms like ankiya naat, bhaona, mobile theatre, and proscenium theatre constituted the history of theatre in Assam till…
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Mithu Biswas
The recorded history of theatre in Assam goes back to the sixteenth century. The first written drama in this land, a unique form of theatrical performance known as bhaona (Fig. 1), was created by Srimanta Shankaradeva (1449–1568), who wrote Chinha-Yatra as the first ankiya…
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डॉ कुलिन कुमार जोशी (Dr Kulin Kumar Joshi)
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