Performing the Radical

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India in the 21st Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This revealing volume rethinks notions of the radical by exploring a range of contemporary theatre and performance produced in response to the politico-cultural climate in twenty-first century India. Offering a critique of dominant power structures built on Hindu supremacy in a multifaith and multiethnic society, neoliberalism morphing into crony capitalism and heteronormative and casteist politics, the book showcases how this has not only given rise to censorship and intolerance of dissent but also brought forth new forms of political and aesthetic radicalism. Theatre has found many ways to perform the radical as a form of resistance, entailing its intersections with other forms of art and performance as well as with the political itself in its theatricalized structure. The radical in contemporary Indian theatre and performance is shown to lie in creating a new ‘transgressive aesthetic’, often formally hybrid, to project alternative perspectives and possibilities.Chapters include discussions of the performance of protest; creation of an alternative worldview through indigenous rituals and cultural festivals; world-making through transformative encounters; devised plays and documentary theatre as tools of dissent; radical imperatives of care in animated videos and short films; scenography and the actor’s body as sites of resistance, and the performance of faith as survival in a hostile world.Balancing theory, context and performance analysis, this volume gives the reader comprehensive knowledge of 21st-century Indian performance. Through its focus on different iterations of the radical in society and performance, it articulates theatre’s ability to disrupt the status quo and reveal the possibilities of change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-05-14
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMethuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350465619

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List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Ashis Sengupta (University of North Bengal, India)1. Theatre on the Barricades: An Enquiry into the Performative Turn of Protest, its Potentials and Precariat LocationsBrahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)2. Performing Adivasiyat/Indigeneity: Creating an Alternative WorldviewSubodh Kunwer (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) 3. Nearness as Radical: Overwhelming Proximity and Environments of Theatre in Amitesh Grover’s WorkTrina Nileena Banerjee (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India)4. ‘Making a Fist’: Voices from the CracksAnuja Ghosalkar (founder of Drama Queen, India)5. Pandemic Works: Care and its Radical Imperatives Gargi Bharadwaj (Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, India) and Anita E. Cherian (School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi, India)6. Radical Breakthroughs: Challenging the Edifices of Gender and Sexuality in Classical and Contemporary Dance/Performance A. Mangai (formerly Stella Maris College, Chennai, India)7. The Kashmir Trilogy: A Conversation with Abhishek MajumdarAn online interview by Ashis Sengupta8. Deepan Sivaraman’s Ubu Roi: A Scenographic Foray against Authoritarianism Ashis Sengupta ((University of North Bengal, India))9. The Voice from the Margin: Bodo Theatre Practice and Okhrang-The SkyJeetumoni Basumatary (Cotton University, Assam, India)10. Performing Faith in the Land of Eighteen Tides: Exploring the Radical in ‘Bonbibir Pala’ Haimanti Mukhoti (University of Warwick, UK)Index