Literary Theatre

Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre

Sudhanva Deshpande’s ‘Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi’ breaks new ground in combining history with biography.

Souradeep Roy
· Jul 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia

A new video captures a history through play and novel readings.

Saikat Majumdar
· Jun 20, 2020 · 03:30 pm
How Shakespeare shaped his plays (and made Hamlet fat) to suit his leading man

Richard Burbage was the first person to play Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth but he did not age particularly well.

Lisa Hopkins, The Conversation
· Mar 21, 2019 · 08:30 am

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