Theatre and the world : performance and the politics of culture / Rustom Bharucha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bharucha, Rustom, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kroetz, Franz Xaver, 1946- Wunschkonzert.

Kroetz, Franz Xaver.

Intercultural communication.

Theater--India.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective. Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends that Indian theatre has been grossly mythologised and taken out of context by Western directors and critics. And he presents a detailed dramaturgical analysis of what he describes as an int

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Collision of cultures: some western interpretations and uses of the Indian theatre; Goodbye Grotowski; The theatre of migrants; Peter Brook's Mahabharata: a view from India; The Request Concert project: foreword; Request Concert in Calcutta; Request Concert in Bombay; Request Concert in Madras; Retrospect; Preparing for Krishna; Notes on the invention of tradition; Letter to an actress; Ninasam: a cultural alternative; Afterword; Index

Notes:

"First published 1990 by Manohar Publications, India"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-87314-X

1-134-87315-8

0-203-28397-X

1-280-06795-0

0-203-16817-8

9780203168172

OCLC:

252914325