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- Title
lcThe pandies' theatre of Delhi.
- Authors
Kumar, Sanjay
- Abstract
This article traces evolution of pandies' theater in Delhi, India. Pandie's theater is a feminist theater, it is from the margins, a theatre of children, women, slumdwellers, the homeless, and of vulnerable sections and subsections within those margins. It roots reach back to 1987 when a handful of teachers and students of a conservative college in the University of Delhi attempted to do meaningful theater. The group's first production was Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding. The theater did a production each year till 1992. The plays in a chronological order were: Ngũg&itilde wa Thiong'o's The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Strindberg's Dream Play, Vicente Lenero's The Bricklayers, Genet's The Balcony, and Bertolt Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle. All the plays were attempts to go beyond the norms learned at school. Pandies' theater evolved as an activist and possibly the only feminist theater group in North India. Despite its humble origins, the theater have gone on to establish itself among the leading theater groups in the Delhi, with over 70 members. Today, apart from one or two productions in commercial auditoriums every year, the theater performs at slums, schools, and colleges on topics such as rape, prostitution and HIV, the Mental Health Act and its relation to women, and the institutions of love and marriage.
- Subjects
DELHI (India); INDIA; FEMINIST theater; FEMINIST drama; THEATER; PERFORMING arts
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2004, Vol 48, Issue 3, p79
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1162/1054204041667703