Theatre
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This book explores how theatre enabled Parsis to negotiate the growing challenges of colonialism
Murali Ranganathan
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‘The Parsi Theatre’ is an important addition to the sparse information available on the matter
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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This play by Cyrus Mistry records the travails of a Parsi family in a crumbling Mumbai mansion
Cyrus Mistry
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The playwright who brought Godot to Kashmir
Safwat Zargar
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A new book examines Dalit women’s roles in the Tamasha and the brutality they endured for the form
Shailaja Paik
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When Premchand wrote a play about Islamic history to highlight communal tensions in 1900s’ India
Nishat Zaidi
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‘The Muslim Vanishes’: A play imagines the implications of a social and economic boycott of Muslims
Maaz Bin Bilal
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Why the real problems that a theatre actress might face are not on the stage but outside it
Trina Nileena Banerjee
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How Ananda Lal translated Utpal Dutt’s 50-year-old political play ‘Barricade’ into English
Ramu Ramanathan
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In this explosive fantasy by Saeed Naqvi, India is confronted with the disappearance of its Muslims
Saeed Naqvi
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Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021): Writing complex women was one of the musical legend’s big achievements
Narelle Yeo, The Conversation
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Watch: Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomes audiences back to Broadway at reopening of ‘Hamiton’
Scroll Staff
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How William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ is a play that speaks to pandemics past and present
Elizabeth Schafer, The Conversation
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Watch: Here is the one-year lockdown story of London’s The Old Vic theatre
Scroll Staff
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‘Sylvia’: This experimental debut uses prose and poetry to present an enigmatic relationship
Maithreyi Karnoor
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‘Betrayed By Hope’: A new play visits the life of poet and writer Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Namita Gokhale Malashri Lal
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Meet Kulsum Padamsee, the charismatic matriarch of one of Mumbai’s most storied families
Feisal Alkazi
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How a Victorian-era gadget set the stage for live-streaming 150 years ago
Natasha Kitcher, The Conversation
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Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre
Souradeep Roy
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Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia
Saikat Majumdar