Sankardeva - Theater of India

A masked Bhaona performer in a demon costume mid-dance inside a lamp-lit Assamese namghar, white-robed narrator and drummers around him, wooden pillars and devotees watching.

Regional Traditions

June 12, 2026 7 min read

What Is Bhaona? Assam’s 500-Year-Old Monastery Theatre, Explained

Five hundred years ago, a saint in Assam invented a theatre form to teach devotion, and monasteries have staged it…