{"product_id":"theatre-across-borders-9781350195295","title":"Theatre Across Borders","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Abhishek Majumdar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - Playwriting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator Repair Service's 9-hour production of \u003c\/i\u003eThe Great Gatsby \u003ci\u003eand a Kathakali performance?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow can we come to appreciate the slowness of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre of post-Arab Spring Turkey? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan we go beyond our own culture's contemporary definition of a 'good play' and think about the theatre in a deep and pluralistic manner?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on his extensive experience working with theatre artists, students and thinkers across the globe - up to and including an hour-long audience with the Dalai Lama - playwright Abhishek Majumdar considers why we make theatre and how we see it in different parts of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis own work has taken him from theatre in Japan to dance companies in the Phillippines, writers in Lebanon and Palestine, theatre groups in Burkina Faso, war-torn areas like Kashmir and North Eastern India, and to China and Tibet, Argentina and Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVia a far-reaching and provocative collection of essays that is informed by this wealth of experience, Majumdar explores: \u003cbr\u003e- how different cultures conceive theatre and how the norm of one place is the experiment of another;\u003cbr\u003e- the ways in which theatre across the world mirrors its socio political and philosophical climate;\u003cbr\u003e- how, for thousands of years, theatre has been a tool to both disrupt and to heal;\u003cbr\u003e- and how, even within the many differences, there are universals from which we can all learn and how theatre does cross borders \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf interest to theatre makers everywhere - be they writers, actors, directors or designers - this book offers an oversight, as well as interrogation, into the place of theatre in the world today.","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45086762696855,"sku":"9781350195295","price":9529.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350195295.webp?v=1768545760","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/theatre-across-borders-9781350195295","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}