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Regionalising Brecht in India

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ByPrateek
BookBrecht in India

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
Imprint Routledge
Pages 26
eBook ISBN 9781003030317

ABSTRACT

This chapter continues the discussion on the influence of Brechtian aesthetics and its disparate uses in India by analysing the theatre of Habib Tanvir, a playwright and director from India. With my analysis of the 1978 performance of Shajapur ki Shantibai (The Good Person of Szechwan), I demonstrate how Tanvir ultimately used Brechtian aesthetics in India to challenge the nation-state, an act that remained independent of Brechtian theatre’s previous uses in the European context. I argue that the production “regionalised” Brechtian theatre in India and should be read as the culmination of Tanvir’s endeavour to create a “regional” theatre apparatus, which appropriated both Western and mainstream Indian variants of Brechtian theatre.

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