Innehåller bibliografi

Surveillance, sedition and censorship: control and proscription of performative spaces in India from colonial to postcolonial era / Partha Sarathi Nandi -- Comedy between production and audience consumption / Mounir Sanhaji -- Writing outside of language: poetomachic power plays in the prose of the avant-garde / Gerald Raymond Gordon -- Urs at Mastana Baba Dargah, Masjid Banda, near Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telengana / Sayan Gupta -- Badal Sircar's Evam Indrajit: a mirror to the socio-cultural wasteland of the post-independent India / Sayantina Dutta -- The seed of a problem: body and speech in Basheer's Kathabhījam / Mohammed Shafeeq Valcherry -- The art of precision: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the symphony touching every heart / Mitra Sannigarahi -- Disregard for the cultural roots and self-destruction: an exploration into Lynn Nottage's Fabulation or The re-education of Undine / N. Vijayalakshmi, Soumya Jose -- The resilience of rape victims: a reading of Lynn Nottage's Ruined / Soumya Jose, Sony Jalarajan Raj -- Mother Africa versus her betrayer son: a postcolonial study of Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa / Saikat Guha -- Language, identity and culture in Brian Friel's Translations / Khum Prasad Sharma, Phatik Prasad Poudyal -- Dialectics of center and margin: a postcolonial inquiry into Soyinka's The lion and the jewel and Karnad's Nagamandala / Chand Mohammed Basha -- Marathi theatre and its problems and tensions / Shanta Gokhale in conversation with Sayan Dey -- The multi-dimensionalities of dance and theatre / Sunil Kothari in conversation with Sayan Dey

In the present era, when all of human civilization is struggling to preserve their individualities as a result of global commercialism and totalitarianism, theatre and drama play a metonymic role in composing and shaping aspects of human existence. However, there is debate as to how much the text and the stage are able to play a significant role towards staging individual voices on the vast global platform. This book, a collection of twelve essays and two interviews from scholars across the world, explores the different perspectives of textuality and performance. The analytical mode of the plays analysed here reveals different possible directions of dramatic reading. It represents a comprehensive study of drama and theatre, and the contributions will serve as an asset for both undergraduate and graduate students. The indigenous perspectives (both in terms of theatre and drama) provided here push the reader beyond the prevailing clichéd drama and theatre studies