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To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore - Performing Tagore's Plays (Hardcover)
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To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore - Performing Tagore's Plays (Hardcover)
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a prolific playwright with more
than thirty plays to his credit. He is also known for his
life-long, passionate engagement with theatre, first at Jorasanko
and then at Santiniketan, in multiple roles as actor, director,
singer, musician. However, during his own life-time and even after
his demise, his experimental plays have proved challenging for
directors to stage. Time and again they have been written off as
unstageable by prominent theatre makers. Further complications have
arisen from the presence of a spectre of authority around Tagore
and his plays often promoted by Visva-Bharati, the institution he
founded and which held the copyright of his works till 2001. This
book travels through time and space intending to untangle the
enigma presented by Tagore's plays. The book on one hand immerses
itself into the archive of Tagore's plays and his dramaturgy of
them in order to problematize the ways in which they have been
interpreted. On the other, it also engages with productions of
Tagore's plays during and after his life-time to understand the
challenges directors have faced while staging them and the
strategies they have embraced to circumvent them. While performing
a subjective critical reading of the Tagore theatre-archive, an
underlying objective of the book remains to understand the very
concept of the archive, as it manifests itself in contemporary
dramatic theatre.
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