Critical essays on British South Asian theatre / edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ley, Graham.

Dadswell, Sarah.

Series:

Exeter performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater, South Asian--Great Britain--History.

Theater, South Asian.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Critical essays on British South Asian theater

British South Asian theatre

Place of Publication:

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2012.

Contents:

British Asian theatre : the long road to now, and the barriers in-between / Naseem Khan

Images on stage : a historical survey of South Asians in British theatre before 1975 / Colin Chambers

Bridging divides : the emergence of bilingual theatre in tower hamlets in the 1980s / Susan Croft

Experiments in theatre from the margins : text, performance and new writers / Rukhsana Ahmad

Dramatising refuge(e)s : Rukhsana Ahmad's Song for a sanctuary and Tanika Gupta's Sanctuary / Christiane Schlote

Directing storytelling performance and storytelling theatre / Chris Banfield

Engaging the audience : a comparative analysis of developmental strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s / Claire Cochrane

Patriarchy and its discontents : the 'kitchen-sink drama' of Tamasha Theatre Company / Victoria Sams

The marketing of commercial and subsidised theatre to British Asian audiences : Tamasha's Fourteen songs, Two weddings and a funeral (1998 and 2001) and Bombay dreams (2002) / Suman Bhuchar

Mixing with the mainstream : transgressing the identity of place / Jerri Daboo

Between page and stage : Meera Syal in British Asian culture / Giovanna Buonanno

Imagine, Indiaah

on the British stage : exploring Tara's 'Binglish' and Tamasha's Brechtian approaches / Chandrika Patel

British Asian live art : motiroti / Stephen Hodge

On the making of Mr Quiver / Rajni Shah.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780859898355

0859898350

OCLC:

728086934