An anthology of contemporary Bengali plays by Bratya Basu /
Basu, Bratya,
An anthology of contemporary Bengali plays by Bratya Basu / Bratya Basu, Nandita Banerjee Dhawan, Sam Kolodezh, Mainak Banerjee, Arnab Banerji. - 1 online resource (264 pages)
PrefaceINTRODUCTIONSection 1: Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse -Love in the Times of Corona imagines a Kolkata overtaken by pandemic and wild animals as families, governments, and media fall apart. Penitence takes the audience back to Gautam Buddha's Mahaparinirvana to examine the relationship between religion, violence, and ethics in its historical contexts with contemporary relevance.1. Love in Times of Corona2. The PenitenceSection 2: (In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices - The Final Night re-imagines the Indian nationalist Muhammed Ali Jinnah's final night in British India set within the tumultuous events of partition. The play revolves around emotional wounds between him and his daughter in the larger ethico-political imagination of leaving the injured nation to the newly created Pakistan. Creusa-The Queen is a Bengali play based on Greek mythology and follows Queen Creusa through a murderous plot and an unrelenting challenge to the gods and patriarchy within democracy in her pursuit of social justice.3. The Final Night4. Creusa, the QueenSection 3: Intimately Political, Politically Intimate - Blackhole follows Angshuman Banerjee's crisis of sexual identity down a blackhole of absurdism, digital information overload, and knowledge-power knots that make up the struggle of self-fashioning in the digital age. Who? is a psychocomic thriller that puts contemporary Bengali life under a microscope and deftly moves through topics of misogyny, mental health, and cricket in an absurdist whodunit that spotlights the hypocrisy of the middle-class Indian family.5. Blackhole6. Who?AFTERWORD.
9781350289444 codeMantra
Oriental & Indian philosophy.
Performing Arts--Theater--Playwriting.
Performing Arts--Theater--History & Criticism.
Theatre studies.
An anthology of contemporary Bengali plays by Bratya Basu / Bratya Basu, Nandita Banerjee Dhawan, Sam Kolodezh, Mainak Banerjee, Arnab Banerji. - 1 online resource (264 pages)
PrefaceINTRODUCTIONSection 1: Poignant Challenges, Soulful Remorse -Love in the Times of Corona imagines a Kolkata overtaken by pandemic and wild animals as families, governments, and media fall apart. Penitence takes the audience back to Gautam Buddha's Mahaparinirvana to examine the relationship between religion, violence, and ethics in its historical contexts with contemporary relevance.1. Love in Times of Corona2. The PenitenceSection 2: (In)visible Boundaries, (Un)democratic Choices - The Final Night re-imagines the Indian nationalist Muhammed Ali Jinnah's final night in British India set within the tumultuous events of partition. The play revolves around emotional wounds between him and his daughter in the larger ethico-political imagination of leaving the injured nation to the newly created Pakistan. Creusa-The Queen is a Bengali play based on Greek mythology and follows Queen Creusa through a murderous plot and an unrelenting challenge to the gods and patriarchy within democracy in her pursuit of social justice.3. The Final Night4. Creusa, the QueenSection 3: Intimately Political, Politically Intimate - Blackhole follows Angshuman Banerjee's crisis of sexual identity down a blackhole of absurdism, digital information overload, and knowledge-power knots that make up the struggle of self-fashioning in the digital age. Who? is a psychocomic thriller that puts contemporary Bengali life under a microscope and deftly moves through topics of misogyny, mental health, and cricket in an absurdist whodunit that spotlights the hypocrisy of the middle-class Indian family.5. Blackhole6. Who?AFTERWORD.
9781350289444 codeMantra
Oriental & Indian philosophy.
Performing Arts--Theater--Playwriting.
Performing Arts--Theater--History & Criticism.
Theatre studies.