ABSTRACT
This chapter will critically review three stage performances held during the Asian Shakespeare Association 2016 – Hamlet, I Don’t Like It/As You like It and Dying to Succeed – to highlight their experimentations with the ‘local’, stretching the accepted notions of the ‘national’ and the ethnic, and creating new dimensions and inflections in the ‘global’ performance of Shakespeare. The chapter will particularly attend to the sliding significances of language vis-à-vis location in the Indian and global contexts. It will hence reflect on the evolving identities of the Indian/Asian culture and performances which are challenging the discourse on how Shakespeare makes meaning today.
