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Theatre Across Borders (Hardcover, HPOD)
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Theatre Across Borders (Hardcover, HPOD)
Series: Theatre Makers
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Is there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator
Repair Service's 9-hour production of The Great Gatsby and a
Kathakali performance? How can we come to appreciate the slowness
of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre of
post-Arab Spring Turkey? Can we go beyond our own culture's
contemporary definition of a 'good play' and think about the
theatre in a deep and pluralistic manner? Drawing on his extensive
experience working with theatre artists, students and thinkers
across the globe - up to and including an hour-long audience with
the Dalai Lama - playwright Abhishek Majumdar considers why we make
theatre and how we see it in different parts of the world. His own
work has taken him from theatre in Japan to dance companies in the
Phillippines, writers in Lebanon and Palestine, theatre groups in
Burkina Faso, war-torn areas like Kashmir and North Eastern India,
and to China and Tibet, Argentina and Mexico. Via a far-reaching
and provocative collection of essays that is informed by this
wealth of experience, Majumdar explores: - how different cultures
conceive theatre and how the norm of one place is the experiment of
another; - the ways in which theatre across the world mirrors its
socio political and philosophical climate; - how, for thousands of
years, theatre has been a tool to both disrupt and to heal; - and
how, even within the many differences, there are universals from
which we can all learn and how theatre does cross borders Of
interest to theatre makers everywhere - be they writers, actors,
directors or designers - this book offers an oversight, as well as
interrogation, into the place of theatre in the world today.
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