Description
This book analyses Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to Bengali drama and theatre. Throughout this book, Abhijit Sen locates and studies Rabindranath’s experiments with drama/theatre in the context of the theatre available in nineteenth-century Bengal, and explores the innovative strategies he adopted to promote his ‘brand’ of theatre. This approach finds validation in the fact that Rabindranath combined in himself the roles of author-actor-producer, who always felt that, without performance, his dramatic compositions fell short of the desired completeness. Various facets of his plays as theatre and his own role as a theatre-practitioner are the prime focus of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies and most notably, those focusing on Indian Theatre and Postcolonial Theatre.
Table of Contents
Introduction SECTION 1: The historical context 1. The Bengal Renaissance theatre and Rabindranath SECTION 2: Rabindranath as dramaturge and theorist 2. Theatre and Nation 3. Theatre at the asram-school 4. Theories of theatre SECTION 3: Rabindranath as theatre-practitioner 5. Preparing the playtext 6. Selecting the cast 7. Rehearsing the play 8. Setting the stage 9. Acting the role 10. Theatricalizing cultures 11. Translating the playtext 12. Conclusion
