Articles & Lectures

THE TAILORBIRD AND THE CAT: MANIPUR AND INDIA

A book review of Rustom Bharucha’s The Theatre of Kanhailal (Seagull Books), published in the India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 180-182: Download PDF: https://kolkatatheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Tailorbird-and-Cat-F.pdf

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UTPAL DUTT (1929-93)

Utpal Dutt was one of the two paradigms of post-Independence Bengali theatre. If the Group Theatre movement since the Fifties contributed two new directions—the political and the poetical—then his is

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DINNER WITH DRAMA

Blackout … Music … Spotlight … Action! Bhekti … Malai kofta … Spaghetti … Aludam Kashmiri? ls this some kind of time and space warp where drama’s got jumbled up

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AN ALTERNATIVE THEATRE

Not too many people know of the innovative “Third Theatre” movement pioneered by Badal Sircar in this city, a theatrical medium that is quite separate from the folk or traditional

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