ABSTRACT
Analysing Khasakkinte Ithihasam (The Legends of Khasak, 2015) directed by Deepan Sivaraman with the group K. M. K. Smaraka Kalasamithi based in a small town in the south Indian state of Kerala, this chapter interrogates the political valence of the new emergent theatre aesthetic in India. It analyses the complex stage language of the production as an instance of what Andy Lavender has termed “theatre of engagement”, showing how a new heteroglossic language of the stage opens out a geography of contemporary experience based on migration in India under globalisation.
