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Theatre and Democracy

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Ravi Chaturvedi, Associate Professor and head of the Department of Dramatics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, has assembled for publication this group of 16 essays on democracy in performance. The essays represent various cultural and national, as well as transnational, theatre traditions, and include topics of gender, folk theatre and politics, religious performance tradition, cultural understanding of theatre, gender and sexuality on stage, puppetry, and history and cultural activism through theatre, among others.

 

Included in the book are a foreword and the following essays:

 

  1. Trans-national theatre and gender: the implicit and the explicit/Asha Pande.
  2. Jatra and the marginalization of mythological themes/Bishnupriya Dutt.
  3. From staging gender to "Rehearsing Sex": a space of freedom among theory and the dead meandering to assist with resistance/Christiana Lambrinidis.
  4.  The irony and paradox of the effects of democratic governance on the development of Indic Theatre in South Africa/D. Schauffer.
  5. Characteristics of Korean traditional plays/Han Ok-Geun.
  6. Cultural hybridity: a study of the Christian performance tradition of Kerala/Joly Puthussery.
  7. Performing history of Han in Korean Theatre: Park, Joh-Yeol's Play Toenails of General Oh/Jung-Soon Shim.
  8. Democracy, social change and theatre/Minoti Chatterjee.
  9. Understanding and misunderstanding Japanese Theatre/Mitsuya Mori.
  10. The politics of reading folk theatre traditions/Poonam Trivedi.
  11. The Indian women: transformation into a real self/Preeti S. Kurup.
  12. Performing Dalit: echoing multi-layered political undertones in M. Mukundan's Oru Dalit Yuvtiyute Kadana Katha/Ravi Chaturvedi.
  13. Stage for humankind : contestation of native knowledge and global knowledge on the Malay Theatre Scene/Solehah Ishak.
  14. The politics of working class racism: Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads - by Roy Williams, Royal National Theatre, London/Svetlana Dimcovic.
  15. History in performance: cultural activism in the plays of Girish Karnad/Vanashree.
  16. Puppeting a Joruri: is it really needed to be a theatre?/Yasushi Nagata.

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Email from Veronica Baxter to The Communication Initiative on November 10 2008. Image credit: In the Culture of One World