Over forty years before the footlights: part II chapter XXII
Author :Mudaliar, Pammal Sambanda
Keywords :Mudaliar, Pammal Sambanda
Tamil drama
Drama
Issue Date :1997
Publisher :Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
Description :This article focus on two other aspects of Mudaliar's work. Firstly the functioning of Suguna Vilasa Sabha (his theatre group).The second aspect that receives focus in these excerpts is Mudaliar's thoroughgoing approach to doing theatre: the way he prepared to play the role of Hamlet and the methods he developed to train his actors in stage business show a rigor worthy of a professional theatre-training institution. One might say Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar was a freak his kind of approach and attitude towards theatre are not to be found before him or after him in Tamil theatrical history. It is found in other arts like music and dance. where there was the gurukul or in folk theatre where the family context approximates a training institution or in cinema where since the 1980s. the importance of disciplined training in technical subjects has been gradually recognized. But in Tamil theatre, discipline and method are still brushed aside as irrelevant.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Mudaliar, Pammal Sambanda
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Tamil Nadu
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1997
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This article focus on two other aspects of Mudaliar's work. Firstly the functioning of Suguna Vilasa Sabha (his theatre group).The second aspect that receives focus in these excerpts is Mudaliar's thoroughgoing approach to doing theatre: the way he prepared to play the role of Hamlet and the methods he developed to train his actors in stage business show a rigor worthy of a professional theatre-training institution. One might say Pammal Sambanda Mudaliar was a freak his kind of approach and attitude towards theatre are not to be found before him or after him in Tamil theatrical history. It is found in other arts like music and dance. where there was the gurukul or in folk theatre where the family context approximates a training institution or in cinema where since the 1980s. the importance of disciplined training in technical subjects has been gradually recognized. But in Tamil theatre, discipline and method are still brushed aside as irrelevant.
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