Konar Rajdeep

To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore (eBook, PDF)

Performing Tagore's Plays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book travels through time and space intending to untangle the enigma presented by Tagore's plays. The book immerses itself into the archive of Tagore's plays and his dramaturgy of them in order to problematize the ways in which they have been interpreted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000799774
• Artikelnr.: 65881761

Autorenporträt

Rajdeep Konar is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. He was born and brought at Santiniketan and has received his early education at Visva-Bharati, the institution set up by poet/educationist Rabindranath Tagore. For his doctoral project completed at School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University he has worked on the relationship between 'theatre' and the 'archive' through a case study of productions of Rabindranath Tagore's plays. He has been part of conceptualization and execution of multiple performances at Santiniketan, Kolkata and New Delhi. For the past few years he has been working closely with the Kolkata based blind theatre group Anyadesh, documenting their work as well as functioning as a sighted facilitator. He has recently received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore to prepare a documentary monograph on the group. His articles have appeared in reputed journals like Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Economic & Political Weekly and Theatre Research International.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sokher Theatre at Thakurbari: Inception and Formative Experiments 2.
Freedom to Play: Exploring a New Language of Theatre at Santiniketan 3.
Where Opposites Meet: Tagore in the Public Theatre of Bengal 4. Performing
the Archive: Bohurupee's Raktakarabi (1954) 5. Dramaturgy as Contingent
Encounter: Dakghar outside Bengal