Critical essays on British South Asian theatre. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell.
• Authors: Professor, Ley, Professor Graham
• Editors: Ley, Graham; Dadswell, Sarah
• Contents: ; List of Illustrations Contributors <br />; Introduction ; 1. British Asian Theatre: the Long Road to Now, and the Barriers in-between, Naseem Khan; ; 2. Images on Stage: a Historical Survey of South Asians in British Theatre before 1975, Colin Chambers; ; 3. Bridging Divides: the Emergence of Bilingual Theatre in Tower Hamlets in the 1980s, Susan Croft; ; 4. Experiments in Theatre from the Margins: Text, Performance and New Writers, Rukhsana Ahmad; ; 5. Dramatising Refuge(e)s: Rukhsana Ahmad’s Song for a Sanctuary and Tanika Gupta’s Sanctuary, Christiane Schlote; ; 6. Directing Storytelling Performance and Storytelling Theatre, Chris Banfield; ; 7. Engaging the Audience: a Comparative Analysis of Developmental Strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s, Claire Cochrane; ; 8. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: the ‘Kitchen-Sink Drama’ of Tamasha Theatre Company, Victoria Sams; ; 9. The Marketing of Commercial and Subsidised Theatre to British Asian Audiences: Tamasha’s Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral (1998 and 2001) and Bombay Dreams (2002), Suman Bhuchar; ; 10. Mixing with the Mainstream: Transgressing the Identity of Place, Jerri Daboo; ; 11. Between Page and Stage: Meera Syal in British Asian Culture, Giovanna Buonanno; ; 12. Imagine, Indiaah ... on the British Stage: Exploring Tara’s ‘Binglish’ and Tamasha’s Brechtian Approaches, Chandrika Patel; ; 13. British Asian Live Art: motiroti, Stephen Hodge; ; 14. On the Making of Mr Quiver, Rajni Shah ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792.089914041; Ethnic theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Ethnic theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century; South Asians -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899093
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