Myriad Spaces

Myriad Spaces: Indian Theatre and Beyond surveys the history, aesthetics, strategies, and practices of modern Indian theatre from a contemporary political and cultural perspective. Myriad spaces echo multiple voices and streams in the practice of Indian theatre; a vivid and myriad spectrum of cultural, ethnic, and aesthetic concerns in the performance practice that ranges between the traditional and the contemporary. The inherent characteristic/ objective/ concern is the expression of the multiplicity and manifold nature of performance modes as the truth and essence of ‘Indianness’ that encapsulates the republic of ‘Indian Theatre’. Myriad spaces will be a valuable reference resource, assisting the study of the theatre of India, its history, methodology, aesthetics, and its diverse perspectives.

The different articles are The Actor and Space (Bansi Kaul), Indian Method in Acting (Prasanna), Indian Shakespeares (H.S. Shivaprakash), Abhinaya in Natyashastra (KG Paulose), Kashmir and its Performance Tradition (M.K. Raina), Parsi Theatre-Revisited (Hema Singh), Production and Process (Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry), Actor, Voice and Speech (Chandradasan), Theatre and Music (Subhadeep Guha), Space and Objects in Theatre (Deepan Sivaraman), Devising Theatre (Kirti Jain), and Post dramatic Theatre. (Abhilash Pillai). This book contains 55 rare and important photographs.This will be a valuable reference resource, assisting the study of the theatre of India, its history, methodology, aesthetics and its diverse perspectives