ABSTRACT
The invitation from Professor Kousar J. Azam to join in a one-day colloquium on 18 February 2014 titled 'Language and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad: A Peep into History' came at an exceedingly opportune time. She asked Shankar Melkote and the author to present, in conversation with each other, a 'peep shot' at a historical perspective of English theatre in Hyderabad. Coming in the 50th year of the founding of the Dramatic Circle Hyderabad, this invitation provided both an opportunity and an impetus to convert the strong but vague and disjointed bouts of nostalgia and reminiscences that some of us oldies were indulging in, into a more orderly and structured, well, weakly structured one would need to admit presentation. Today's English theatre scene in Hyderabad is more than somewhat different from the time when DCH started fifty years ago. The Little Theatre Hyderabad is a group which does dramatized readings regularly at different locations.
