Indian Folk Theatres

By Julia Hollander

Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent:

Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from Maharastra Chhau, the lyrical dance theatre of Bihar Theru Koothu, satirical, ritualised epics from Tamil Nadu.

The contrasting styles and contents are depicted with a strongly practical bias, harnessing expertise from practitioners, anthropologists and theatre scholars in India. Indian Folk Theatres makes these exceptionally versatile and up-beat theatre forms accessible to students and practitioners everywhere.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415304555
• ISBN13: 9780415304559
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.7"