Chronicles from Kashmir

<p class=ql-align-justify>'What is happening in Kashmir?'</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Chronicles from Kashmir</em> explores this question through a site-adaptive 24-hour theatrical performance. Developed between 2013 and 2018 by the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi and Nandita Dinesh the play uses a durational promenade format to immerse its audience within a multitude of perspectives on life in Kashmir. From a wedding celebration that is interrupted by curfew to schoolboys divided by policing strategies and soldiers struggling with a toxic mixture of boredom and trauma <em>Chronicles from Kashmir</em> uses performance installation and collaborative creation to grapple with Kashmir's conflicts through the lenses of outsiders insiders and everyone in between.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Due to varying degrees of censorship and suppression the play has not been performed live since 2017. This book is therefore an attempt to keep <em>Chronicles from Kashmir</em> alive by including filmed scenes a script contextual questions a glossary and illuminating introductions by Nandita Dinesh and EKTA founder Bhawani Bashir Yasir. A valuable Open Access resource for practitioners educators and students of performance and conflict this book is also stimulating reading for anybody who has asked 'What is happening in Kashmir?'</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This playscript includes:</p><ul><li>Twenty filmed scenes of the play in performance</li><li>A range of contextual questions to stimulate discussion on staging site-adaptive theatre in places of conflict</li><li>A helpful glossary</li></ul>