Theatre of the Oppressed

Tale-danda Godugunuri Prasad When Girish Karnad wrote the historical play Tughlaq, it created uproar in the Kannada theatre, the thrill of which no one has been able to forget. Then he wrote Tale-danda and became the centre of a controversy once again. Soon after the publication of Tale-danda, a play reading by the dramatist was organised at the Natya Shodh Sansthan, Kolkata. The spell of the drama was…

Beckett and Pinter are associated with absurd movement. The absurd movement describes the meaninglessness and uncertainty of human life. This movement was influenced by existential philosophy of Sartre, Camus and Heidegger. Martin Asslin’s book The Theatre of Absurd is an authentic discussion on the theme of absurdism as presented by post modern dramatists like Beckett, Pinter, Genet, Ionesco, etc. It seems that both Beckett and Pinter reflect the spirit of contemporary society in their works.…

Pacific theatre. This interpretation of the war is insufficient, as it fails to credit colonialism and the mobilization of empires as major factors…

Augustus was the founder of the Roman empire as well as the first emperor of Rome. His legacy on the Roman empire allowed it to become as large and powerful as it eventually became at its peak. Augustus was a particularly powerful leader because he was skilled at advertising his achievements for the Roman people to see. The pieces Augustus commissioned were like the modern day billboards, set up for all to see. Before his death, Augustus wrote down all of his accomplishments and had them…

something as she frantically propels herself through space. Specifically, the intimate size of the flexible stage and black box theatre, creates a close community throughout the audience. Additionally, the audience can unite under this shared experience of observing the same show, creating a bond between them. Because Loree Theatre is rather small compared to any grand theatre,…

Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, is a cultural ethnography detailing the lives of African American women in the Fresh Start homeless shelter. Author Aimee Meredith Cox argues how different techniques used by homeless black women including the arts allow them to make sense of the different ways they experience things like racism, violence, and poverty as it relates to their everyday lives. Cox also uses these stories to highlight broader issues in society as well as…

compassion, nurturing and caring. The idea of gay is based on the image of the masculine image also (Weaver, Ferguson, Wilbourn, & Salamonson, 2013). Nowadays, so many male nurses are preferred to work in psychiatry, critical care, emergency and operation theatre to prevent the masculine image and the image of gay in society. However, some male medicos have a profoundly arduous time with male nurses. They believe only gay or maladroit men became nurses, and that if they were efficient they went…

children: Susanna (the eldest) and the twins Judith and Hamnet. HIs son Hamnet died in 1596, at the age of 11, about three years before Shakespeare wrote a play called Hamlet. Shakespeare was considered an actor, a playwright, and as a founder of a theatre company. Some people claim that the writer and the actor William Shakespeare were two different people. Like many of Shakespeare’s plays, Macbeth is based loosely on historical events, in this case the reign of King Macbeth 1 of Scotland.…

Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala: A Critique of The Male - Dominated Society Talluri Mathew Bhaskar Lecturer in English A.P.R.J.College Tendulkar successfully brings out the ugly cultural deformity of our society through his plays. He depicts gender deformity in Kamala, political deformity in Ghashiram Kotwal , physical deformity in Sakharam Binder, mental deformity in Encounter in Umbugland and Kanyadan and spiritual deformity in The Vultures --Manchi Sarath Babu Abstract:…

A society that practices prejudice is intolerant and problematic for the opressed and dysfunctional for both the oppressed and the oppressor. The word prejudice means to have “an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reasoning ”. Prejudice can lead to and ties well with discrimination and racism. Prejudice can make a person feel terrible. It also has negative mental effects such depression, sadness, and anxiety on a person . During the time Anna moody…