Veenapani Chawla
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Eminent theatre personality Veenapani Chawla (1947‒2014) established Adishakti in Mumbai in 1981, in a quest to evolve a unique theatre language. Later, she shifted Adishakti to Puducherry, where it finally settled into its own campus in 1981. The theatre that Chawla wanted to mould and explore was…
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‘In Europe, theatre is dying like the epidemic,’ wrote Eugenio Barba, the director of the Odin Teatret (Odin Theatre, Denmark) to the Indian theatre practitioner Veenapani Chawla (Fig.1) in 1996. Chawla shared Barba’s lament. In India, too, both contemporary and traditional forms of theatre were…
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Veenapani Chawla (1947‒2014) was an acclaimed theatre personality who opened new frontiers in modern Indian theatre. After finishing an MA in History, she taught history and English in schools in Mumbai. When she took drama classes for her young students, she was so fascinated by the craft that she…
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