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Critical essays on British South Asian theatre /

Critical essays on British South Asian theatre / British South Asian theatre edited by Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell. - Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2012. - x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Exeter performance studies . - Exeter performance studies. .

British Asian theatre : the long road to now, and the barriers in-between / Naseem Khan -- Images on stage : a historical survey of South Asians in British theatre before 1975 / Colin Chambers -- Bridging divides : the emergence of bilingual theatre in tower hamlets in the 1980s / Susan Croft -- Experiments in theatre from the margins : text, performance and new writers / Rukhsana Ahmad -- Dramatising refuge(e)s : Rukhsana Ahmad’s Song for a sanctuary and Tanika Gupta’s Sanctuary / Christiane Schlote -- Directing storytelling performance and storytelling theatre / Chris Banfield -- Engaging the audience : a comparative analysis of developmental strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s / Claire Cochrane -- Patriarchy and its discontents : the ’kitchen-sink drama’ of Tamasha Theatre Company / Victoria Sams -- 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 -- Mixing with the mainstream : transgressing the identity of place / Jerri Daboo -- Between page and stage : Meera Syal in British Asian culture / Giovanna Buonanno -- Imagine, Indiaah-- on the British stage : exploring Tara’s ’Binglish’ and Tamasha’s Brechtian approaches / Chandrika Patel -- British Asian live art : motiroti / Stephen Hodge -- On the making of Mr Quiver / Rajni Shah.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Ethnic theater.
South Asians--Intellectual life.--Great Britain

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