Alternative stages: anti-realism, gender, and contemporary Indian "folk" theatre
Author :Dharwadker, Aparna
Keywords :Folk drama, Indic
Folk drama
Issue Date :2005
Publisher :Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description :In this essay author approach theatre based on folk: forms as a field of contemporary practice-not the most significant, and certainly not the only significant form of theatre in the present, as some proponents claim, but one that is important enough to be rescued from spurious claims about authenticity on the one hand, and charges of mere fetishism and revivalism on the other.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Dharwadker, Aparna
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India
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2017-07-11T23:18:17Z
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2017-07-11T23:18:17Z
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2005
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In this essay author approach theatre based on folk: forms as a field of contemporary practice-not the most significant, and certainly not the only significant form of theatre in the present, as some proponents claim, but one that is important enough to be rescued from spurious claims about authenticity on the one hand, and charges of mere fetishism and revivalism on the other.
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