Journal of Bengali Studies: Theatre Issue (Vol.2, No.1)

Our Spring Issue 2013 is being published on the occasion of Dolpurnima. Journal of Bengali Studies Vol.2, No.1 is available here for download. The theme of this issue is Bengali Theatre: Bengalis and Theatre.

 

 

Contents

Editorial 5

Articles

Analysing Contemporary Response to Tagore's Philosophy of 'Indian' Theatre: A Selective Study of Productions in West Bengal

Sourav Gupta 7

Nineteenth Century Bengali Theatre: Nationalism and Identity

Rudrasish Dutta 18

Getting Our Bearings: The 'Unbearable' Tagore and Karnad's Bearable Dramaturgy

Dattatreya Datta 26

The Lonely Crusader's Journey: Sambhu Mitra and His Theatre

Gautam Sengupta 50

Open Air Theatre in Bengal

Dani Karmakar 56

Third Theatre: Thematic and Structural Decolonization

Debadrita Bose 62

Review

 

A Performance of Ruddhoshongeet by Bratyojon in New Delhi

Tamal Dasgupta 71

Theatre in Practice: Concerns of a Field Worker

Theatre: Bread and Butter versus Broad and Better

Rishi Ghosh 77

Commentaries

Bengali Theatre and Bengali Audience

Soumitra Basu 82

Theatre in Patna

Ajit Ganguly 88