ABSTRACT
Among the many abiding oddities of the English academia in India is a strange inability or aversion to practice. Though many of us teach—and love—drama, only very few transition from the happy amateurism of collegiate theatre into the more demanding realms of theatre performed in city auditoriums or community spaces for the general public. Anuradha Marwah is one of those increasingly rare English professors who have been able to do so. As much a novelist as a theatre practitioner, Marwah’s brand of socially committed, left-feminist theatre poses many challenging questions for the nature and direction of theatre pedagogy and practice in and outside the English literary academia in India. Anubhav Pradhan and Sonali Jain discuss theatre, feminism, and society with Marwah in a wide-ranging conversation.
