Indian Folk Theatres

<p><em>Indian Folk Theatres</em> is theatre anthropology as a lived experience containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent:</p><ul> <li>Tamasha song and dance entertainments from Maharastra</li> <li>Chhau the lyrical dance theatre of Bihar</li> <li>Theru Koothu satirical ritualised epics from Tamil Nadu.</li> </ul><p>The contrasting styles and contents are depicted with a strongly practical bias harnessing expertise from practitioners anthropologists and theatre scholars in India. <em>Indian Folk Theatres</em> makes these exceptionally versatile and up-beat theatre forms accessible to students and practitioners everywhere.</p>