Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre

This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.

This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.

This title is complemented by British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History by the same authors, also available from University of Exeter Press.

List of Illustrations                                                                      Contributors                                                                               

Introduction                                                                                  

1. British Asian Theatre: the Long Road to Now, and the Barriers in-between, Naseem Khan

2. Images on Stage: a Historical Survey of South Asians in British Theatre before 1975, Colin Chambers

3. Bridging Divides: the Emergence of Bilingual Theatre in Tower Hamlets in the 1980s, Susan Croft

4. Experiments in Theatre from the Margins: Text, Performance and New Writers, Rukhsana Ahmad

5. Dramatising Refuge(e)s: Rukhsana Ahmad’s Song for a Sanctuary and Tanika Gupta’s Sanctuary, Christiane Schlote

6. Directing Storytelling Performance and Storytelling Theatre, Chris Banfield

7. Engaging the Audience: a Comparative Analysis of Developmental Strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s, Claire Cochrane

8. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: the ‘Kitchen-Sink Drama’ of Tamasha Theatre Company, Victoria Sams

9. 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

10. Mixing with the Mainstream: Transgressing the Identity of Place, Jerri Daboo

11. Between Page and Stage: Meera Syal in British Asian Culture, Giovanna Buonanno

12. Imagine, Indiaah ... on the British Stage: Exploring Tara’s ‘Binglish’ and Tamasha’s Brechtian Approaches, Chandrika Patel

13.  British Asian Live Art: motiroti, Stephen Hodge

14. On the Making of Mr Quiver, Rajni Shah              

Notes                                                                           

Bibliography  

Index