By addressing the politics of aesthetics and by challenging the visual practices, performer/spectator relationships, dramaturgical structures and aesthetic goals of colonial performance, the movement offered a strategy for reassessing colonial ideology and culture and for articulating and defining a newly emerging ‘India’. Theatre of Roots presents an in-depth analysis of this movement: its innovations, theories, goals, accomplishments, problems and legacies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Enacting an Alternative Modernity
Chapter 1: Political and Theatrical Origins of the Roots Movement in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 2: Towards Thanathunatakavedi
The Direction of Kavalam Narayana Panikkar
Chapter 3: A New Hybrid Theatre
Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana
Chapter 4: From Movement to Style to ‘National Theatre’ at the Sangeet Natak Akademi
Chapter 5: Regional/National/International
The Politics of Context in the Work of Ratan Thiyam
Chapter 6: Legacies of the Roots Movement
Appendix 1
1956 Seminar on Indian Drama and Theater
Appendix 2
1977 National Drama Festival
Organized by the Kerala Sangeetha Natak Akademi
Appendix 3
Scheme for Assistance to Young Theatre Workers, 1984-91
Appendix 4
1989 Nehru Shatabdi Natya Samaroh, Delhi
Appendix 5
Seminars and Workshops on Theatre, Dance and Music Organized by the Sangeet Natak Akademi
Appendix 6
National School of Drama’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav, 1999-2007
Select Bibliography
Index