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This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020
by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the
first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and
traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes. The six
plays, freshly translated into English, each bring a uniquely
Bengali and Indian perspective to the intermingling of past and
present, global and local, and magical and real in a postmodern
pastiche about India today. The collection is divided into three
thematic sections: 1) ‘Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse’
examines power in Indian politics, religion, and family. 2)
‘(In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices’ explores the
relationship among democracy, nation building, and the role of
women in intergenerational political struggle. 3) ‘Intimately
Political, Politically Intimate’ navigates queer identity, mental
health and the fabulation of modern Bengali life in a 21st-century
India straddling the progressive politics that removed section 377
and Hindu nationalisms that stoke new conservatisms.
This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020
by Bratya Basu, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2021, is the
first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and
traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes. The six
plays, freshly translated into English, each bring a uniquely
Bengali and Indian perspective to the intermingling of past and
present, global and local, and magical and real in a postmodern
pastiche about India today. The collection is divided into three
thematic sections: 1) ‘Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse’
examines power in Indian politics, religion, and family. 2)
‘(In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices’ explores the
relationship among democracy, nation building, and the role of
women in intergenerational political struggle. 3) ‘Intimately
Political, Politically Intimate’ navigates queer identity, mental
health and the fabulation of modern Bengali life in a 21st-century
India straddling the progressive politics that removed section 377
and Hindu nationalisms that stoke new conservatisms.
This collection of essays examines the works of the most famous
writer of plays in the English language within the most culturally
pervasive genre in which they are performed. Though Realist
productions of Shakespeare are central to the ways in which his
work is produced and consumed in the 21st century-and has been for
the last 100 years-scholars are divided on the socio-political,
historical, and ethical effects of this marriage of content and
style. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which
focuses on how Realist performance style influences our
understanding of Shakespeare's characters. These chapters engage in
close readings of multiple performances, interrogating the ways in
which actors' specific characterizations contribute to extremely
varied interpretations of a single character. The second section
then considers audiences' experiences of Shakespearean texts in
Realist performance. The essays in this section-all written by
theatre directors-imagine out what might constitute Realism. Each
chapter focuses on a particular production, or set of productions
by a single company, and considers how the practitioners utilized
critically informed notions of what constitutes "the real" to
reframe what Realism looks like on stage. This is a book of
arguments by both theatre practitioners and scholars. Rather than
presenting a unified critical position, this collection seeks to
stimulate the debate around Realist Shakespeare performance, and to
attend to the political consequences of particular aesthetic
choices for the audience, as well as for Shakespeare critics and
theatre artists.
This collection of essays examines the works of the most famous
writer of plays in the English language within the most culturally
pervasive genre in which they are performed. Though Realist
productions of Shakespeare are central to the ways in which his
work is produced and consumed in the 21st century-and has been for
the last 100 years-scholars are divided on the socio-political,
historical, and ethical effects of this marriage of content and
style. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which
focuses on how Realist performance style influences our
understanding of Shakespeare's characters. These chapters engage in
close readings of multiple performances, interrogating the ways in
which actors' specific characterizations contribute to extremely
varied interpretations of a single character. The second section
then considers audiences' experiences of Shakespearean texts in
Realist performance. The essays in this section-all written by
theatre directors-imagine out what might constitute Realism. Each
chapter focuses on a particular production, or set of productions
by a single company, and considers how the practitioners utilized
critically informed notions of what constitutes "the real" to
reframe what Realism looks like on stage. This is a book of
arguments by both theatre practitioners and scholars. Rather than
presenting a unified critical position, this collection seeks to
stimulate the debate around Realist Shakespeare performance, and to
attend to the political consequences of particular aesthetic
choices for the audience, as well as for Shakespeare critics and
theatre artists.
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