Rehearsing for Life
Theatre for Social Change in Nepal
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- Author: Monica Mottin, Ruskin College, Oxford
- Date Published: March 2018
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- isbn: 9781108416115
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This work examines the production and performance of theatrical activities aimed at bringing about social change in both development and political intervention in Nepal. If everyday social problems can be both represented and challenged through drama-based performances, then what differentiates street theatre performed in planned developments from street theatre performed within social and political movements? This multi-sited ethnography attempts to answer this question by following the works of Aarohan Theatre - a Kathmandu-based professional company, performing both loktantrik natak (theatre for democracy) in the context of the 2005–06 popular movement, and kachahari natak (forum theatre) for development projects. The analysis then extends to the forum theatre produced by one of Aarohan's partner groups, the Kamlari Natak Samuha - a Tharu grassroots activist organization based in Deukhuri Valley (West Nepal) campaigning against indentured child labour.
Read more- Includes photographs of theatre performances
- This book is one of the first long-term ethnographic studies focusing on theatre in Nepal
- Presents a comparative analysis of different forms of theatre for social change
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17th Oct 2024 by UName-940535
Being a practitioner of theatre in Nepal, it is more insightful to know about Nepali Theatre in details. Theatre has helped to change the society and equally it has transformed the artists.
Review was not posted due to profanity
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- Date Published: March 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108416115
- length: 296 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables, Figures and boxes
Acknowledgements
1. Theatre and life: theatre at the intersection of art, politics and international development
2. Spacing out to dpeak up: resistance, protest and the emergence of street theatre
3. The streets become the stage: performance, protest and theatre in a time of political crisis
4. Kachahari Natak: fragments of an aesthetics of theatre for social change
5. Activism not development work: explorations in Tharu kachahari natak
6. A cultural army for a cultural revolution: Maoist cultural programmes and revolutionary theatre
7. The ordinariness of the special: towards the professionalization of theatre work
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.
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