Our Stage: Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India

Theatre practice in India is like the country itself-vast diverse pulsating. Theatre in India happens anywhere and everywhere-in badly designed auditoria in schools and colleges in parks and gardens in restaurants on rooftops in the open fields on the streetcorner and even sometimes on moving trains. At times it gives pure delight and touches aesthetic peaks at others it is brazen rude outspoken blunt-or both simultaneously.. And yet surprisingly the actual practice of theatre in India-beyond the work of this or that practitioner remains vastly undertheorized.. In OUR STAGE: PLEASURES AND PERILS OF THEATRE PRACTICE IN INDIA leading theatre practitioners administrators and scholars social scientists and activists interrogate theatre practice in India around the themes Locales Experiments Assertions Pathologies New Realities and Training Institutions. They also interrogate the implicit and explicit premises and projections of the 1956 Drama Seminar. Together they give a fascinating insight on how theatre happens in India as well on the most important issues animating this practice.