Deep dives, histories, profiles, and essays on the art and soul of Indian theater.
Unsung Legends
On January 1, 1989, a group of street theater performers were midway through a play called Halla Bol (“Raise Your…
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Folk Theater
In the dim, lamp-lit interior of a Kerala temple, a single performer sits on a wooden stool. For the next…
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History
Long before Aristotle’s Poetics became the Western world’s foundational text on drama, an Indian sage named Bharata Muni was composing…
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