So near, yet so far [electronic resource] : Badal Sircar's third theatre / Manujendra Kundu.

First edition.

9780199086566 (electronic book)

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464777 doi

PN2884 .K85 2016eb

792.095414

An influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925-2011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. His own brand of experimental discourse the 'Third Theatre' is an urban theatre that is characterised by flexibility, intermingling of the performer and the audience to bring the two closer to each other, and low cost of production. The book covers Sircar's career and traces the journey of theatre in 19th-century Bengal from folk culture to the proscenium to open-air performances.

An influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925-2011) penned several acclaimed plays during the turbulent period of the late 1960s and 1970s in West Bengal. His own brand of experimental discourse the 'Third Theatre' is an urban theatre that is characterised by flexibility, intermingling of the performer and the audience to bring the two closer to each other, and low cost of production. The book covers Sircar's career and traces the journey of theatre in 19th-century Bengal from folk culture to the proscenium to open-air performances.

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