Modern Indian Drama Background
Modern Indian Drama Background
Modern Indian Drama Background
It owes its
origins to the growth of large urban settlements like Calcutta,
Madras, and Bombay (now known as Kolkata, Chennai and
Mumbai)beginning sometime in the eighteenth century, under the
British, who had established secure centers of trade by the mid-
nineteenth century.
- The emphasis was shifted from the text to performance and the
body began to play a dominant role in this drama. Much of Delhi's
experimental theatre runs in the basement of Sriram Centre.
- This was, in one sense, a strategy for what Erin Mee calls 'the de-
colonizing (emphasis mine)' (Mee, 2002) of theatre, a politically
motivated need to devise tools for an indigenous aesthetic and
dramaturgy that was not a mere derivative of the Western models.