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UGC approved Peer-Reviewed InternationlJournal. UGC Serial No - 49202

Vol. - XI

THEATREINTERNATIONAL

Approved Peer-Reviewed Internation`al JournalUGC Serial No. - 49202

Vol.` XI

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Amitava RoyBryan Reynolds

Sheila T. CavamaghSubir Dhar

Tapu Biswas

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Editorial Board

International

.utony Johae (UK), Ph.D : Former Associate Professor, Kuwaiti-nj`-ersity.LifeMember,ShakespeareSocietyofEasternlndia.

.|parajita Nanda (USA), Ph.D : Professor of English, Berkeley,"L.-ri`'ersity of California L.A.

Br}.anReynoldsqusA),Ph.I):UCIChancellor'sProfessor,Departmentcii`Drama,ClaireTrevorSchooloftheArts,Univ.ofCalifomia.

Imi Hamana (Japan), Ph.D : Professor, Doctoral Programme inLiterature & Linguistics, University of Tsakuba.

• Late Giinter Grass (Germany) : Founder Advisor, Nobel Laureate inLiterature.

I Robert Emmet Meagher (USA), Ph.D : Professor of Humanities,Hampshire College.

I . S. Ramaswany (USA), Ph.D: Silliman Fellow, Yale university.SheilaT.Cavanagh(USA),Ph.I):ChairProfessor,Masse-Martin/NEHDistinguishedTeachingProfessor,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,Georgia.

• Syed Manzurul Islam (Bangladesh), Ph.D : Professor of English, DhakaUniversity.

National

• Awadesh K singh, Ph.D: Director, Translation centre, IGNOU.

• Dattatreya Dutt, D. Litt.: Professor of Drama, Rabindra BharatiUniversity, Kolkata.

• Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Ph. D : Vice-Chanceller, BankuraUniversity, Bankura, West Bengal.

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• Goutam Ghosal, D. Lift. : Professor, DEOMEL, Vlsva-Bharati.Shantiniketan, West Bengal.

• Harish c. Gupta : Former Deputy Librarian, National Library of lndiaScholarofRussianLanguageandLjterature,SovietLandNehruAwardlaureate.

• Harish Thivcdi, Ph.I) : Former Head of the Deparfuent of English,Delhi University.

• KC. Bara], Ph.D: Professor of India Studies, Dept of ComparativeLiterature&IndiaStudies,EFLUniversity,Hyderabad.

• Madam M. Sarma, Ph.D : Professor of Englisho Tezpur University,Assam.

• M. Mani Meitei, Professor, Dept. of English, Manipur University,Manipur- .

• Manju Dutta Gupta, Pli.D: Former Professor of English, RabindraBharati Uhjversity, Kolkata.

• Pona Mahanta, Ph.D : Former Professor of English, DibrugarhUniversity,Assam.

• Prakash Joshi, Ph.D : Professor, Dept. ofEnglish and MEL, BanasthaliUniversity, Rajasthan.

• Rajan Joseph Barrett, Ph.D : Professor, Dept. of English, Faculty ofArts, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara.

• R. N. Raf, D. Litt. : Professor, Department of English, Banaras HinduUI}iversity, Uttar Pradesh.

• Sanjukta Dasgupta, Ph.D : Professor of English and former Dean,Faculty of Arts, University of calcutta.

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Contents

Friim the Editors' Desk

Pesmodem locutions inCTurch-er-Colonel

i `-ngotiating `SexuaL politics> :Refraining Gender Ideologiesthrough the Rites of Marriage inTNetoster's The Duchess Of Malf i

3 . rcc# A4lofeo77c7: an analytical

o`'erview

4. Badal Sircar's rrz.7€grfecz

S/7afczbczz. from Page to Stagein Hindi

5. The Achievement ofvijayTendulkar as a Playwright withspecial focus on Kcz7?};czcZczcz;?

6. Reading Girish Kamad'sThe Dreams Of Tipu Sultan asa Postcolonial text (re)presenting,retrieving native history vis-a-visdocumented colonial History

Md. Tanvir Ahsan

Manisha Sarkar

Aparajita Hazra

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Nivedita Karmaka r 40

Tapashree Ghosh

7. "It's our version of the DebadityaAmerican Dream": How Girish MukhopadhyayKarnad Tells a Tale of EveryIndian City in Boz./eJ Becz73s o73 roczs/

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8. Portrayal of Mumbai: AnAlternative Reading of MaheshDa:ttariii's On a Muggy Night inMunbal arid Do the Needlful .

9, "A Study of Mahesh Elkunchwar'sSelected Plays: A Mirror of theSociety or the outcome of hisStrangePsyche!

10. Kalakshetra Manipur's Adaptationof Mahasweta Devi's Dr4£{pedj.:A case-study of an alternativedramaturgy

I 1 . From Confidence toIrrationality: Reviewing theColour-Issue in Shakespeare'sOthello

12. Geonge Bemard Shaw's War:A.rms and the Man

13. A Study of D.H. Lawrence'sThe Widowing Of Mrs. Holrayd:A Faithful Portrayal of workingClass Life

14. Female Homosociality andTwelfthNight

15. W'e are Same but Different:A Comparative Feminist Studyof Ray Lawler and Jack Davis'sPlays

Srijita Saha

Shubhendu shekhar 69Naskar & Arpita Panda

Arpita Dasgupta 77

SubhrasletaBanerjee 88

Pinaki Roy 94

Pratik chakrabarti 102

Sanjukta chatterjee IllSengupta

Swati Roy chowdhury 117

16. AssessingAsifcurrimbhoy as an Pratilna Das 134Indian playwhght in English :The Doldrun'imers, Goo & Inqullab

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From the EditorsL' Desk

" Hssue Of Z7.eafre J„femc!#o%aJ Vol. X| begins with young teacher,Ill__ L1__ _-^-+Ill --.-_- +,I + . I_ ---.- _

andtlreatreexpertTanvirAhsan'srecreationofcurrentlythemostrfulolavfromBangladeshCoJo%eJw!.ffeCr%Jches.Theplaywrights,1 __± _____gmHm,esinl play from Banglaaesn Loio#ei vyww i7 %..r..,]. I ,I-r+ -,,,.. F__~,

llFi-I[alCasthaveabsorbedmanyglobaltheatreperspectives,techniques_ _I_1

rdidEvicesandusedthemtodrawintheaudiencesforanipteractivepowe-rfulE===r and lastnave aDsurL7t;u iiLaLry 5iuL+wL wi,-u-r--_r _ ___ _ ,

di FT-oking performance that asks many questions about the role ofmrfuufids and the historical process. Pirandello (the mask and the face),Ehchffi (alienation effect), Badal Sircar (Third Theatre); Peter BrookiunEfrri]iarization),areweddedwithKant,Mar*Lyotardandpost-coloni?li.sinnpreentarivetingsearchfor"ahero"inhistorybydramaticallyexamininglqgtrLeshirevolutionary(?)Col.AbuTcher'slifeandtimesthrouchmanyuifeofimprovisation.TanvirAhsanhasbeenassociatedwiththemaking,mrmahigandremakingofthisplayandgivesusaringsideview(throughEEinterviews)oftheevolutionoftheplayandBangladesh'spoliticalhistory.

Subeontinentalandlndiantheatreiswellservedinthisvolune.Aparajitamzl.gi offers a striking commentary on ree% Mofoo77a: a current Bengali-Hrdinplaythatusestraditionalmyth,religionandfolkloreandtumsthemuEEside down to make a contemporary intervention with a sharp politico-rfuistfocus.Notedtheatrearchivistandexpertonreceptiontheory,ThpuEEswasdocunentstheprogressonstageofBadalSircar'ssearinganti-Nuclear"-arm.j7grhaSafa6di.inHinditranslationduringthelastfivedecades.NiveditaKamakar comprehensively sums up globally renouned Marathi-Indianplaywlight Vijay Tendulkar's achievement offering a detailed analysis offtyedcroff , his most relevant play about Caste and Politics in th.e Indiancontext;TapashreeGhoshreadsGirishKamad'sproblematictakeonregionalandcolonialhistoricalperspectivesinzbeamaso/ITp%S%/f¢#whileDebadityaMukhopadhyayfocusesonKanad'sBo!.JedBecuso#roczsfwhichexploresthepsychographofcontemporaryurbanlndiansandtheircities.

Mahesh Elkunchwar's contribution to Marathi-Indian theatre ishighlighted by Subhendu Naskar and Arpita Panda. They concentrate_ . .. ~ . ii____..I:_+ 1=`,A-a-a;^i`:cl+ Ocnpr..tQ|:+r~+* `,I -_--___

on Elkunchwar's Existentialist, Absurdist, Expressionist aspects

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weddedtoaclassicalkindofrealism.SrijitaSabaunderlinestheappealapdattractionofBombay(Mumbaj),the"dream factory"forgenerationsof writers,playwrights,poets,novelistswithparticularfocusonMaheshDattani'sPortrayalofMumbaianditssexualunderbelly.Mumbaiisbothanurbanmetropolisthrobbingwithvibrant,sexualenergjeswhichisatthesanetimea"Necropolis"ofdrugsandnightnrares.

PratimaDasdocumentstheplaysandcareerofAsifcu]TimbhoyusingP.`Lal'spioneeringWriters'WorkshoppublicationsofAsjf`splaysandthefirstandohlyPhD.thesistilldatebyDrBayapaontheplaywrightalsobroughtoutdyLal'sWW.ArpitaDasguptatakesatransgenericlookatEco-actjvistMahaswetaDevi'sD7it7zfpad7.(tomtomedacrosstheWestemworldbythewritingsandtranslationsofGayatriCbakroborty-Spivack)andhow life impinges on at and vice versa.

YoucannothaveanlnternationalTheaterJounlwithoutwritingsonShakespeare and Co. Subhrasleta Banerjee re-views the problematic ofcolourandracejnOffec//owhileSanjuktaChatterjeeSenguptatakesafr,eshlookatHomosociaHtyinrwe.7zfajv;.a"fromafeministandgenderperspective.

Manisha Sarkar presents a thoroughiy researched paper on "SexualPolitics",genderandtheritesofmarriagethroughWebster'sD%cfeesso/"¢%;acontributionthatwillremalnabenchmarkonthesepardcularaspectsof the Early Modern Period.

PinakiRoyutilizesthewritingsofMilitaryhistoriansandtheinimicalrelationshipbetweenGeneralsontheEuropeanandBritishbattlefieldstopresentG8.$4czwSpra7:Thisshowstdroughj4r%Sa#dzfecjurcz#bowShaw"pleasantly"critiquesfromasocialistperspectivetheCapitalistgreedand

stupidity of British "Warriors".Shaw'scontemporaryD.H.Lawrence,adifferentkindof"socialist",

revealed the poverty and misery of working class lives jn his play 714emdowz.#g a/"rs. frofroj/d. Pratik Cliakrabarty shows how LawrencebelievedthattruelovecanandwillalwaystriumphoveraHproblems.

SwatiRoyChowdliurybringsAustralia'smodemmasterplaywrightsRa.yLawlerandJackDavisincomparativeperspectivetohighlightthestatusandroleofwhiteandAboriginalwomenintheirworks.

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Happy Reac!jngBryanReynolds&AmitavaRoy

For the Eds.

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Our Contributors

1. Md. Tanvir Ahsan, Assistant Professor, Department of Enalish.Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2. Dr Manisha` Sarkar, Assistant professor Of English, BhairabGanguly College, Kolkata, West Bengal.

3. Dr Aparajita Hazra, Former Dean of Arts, Professor and Head`TheDepartmentofEnglish,SKBUniversi.ty,Purulia,WestBengal.

4. Dr Tapu Biswas, Assistant Professor, Depaliment of English andother Modern European Languages, Vlsva-Bharati, Santiniketan3West Bengal.

5. Nivedita Karmakar, Asst professor, Dept of English, Sripat singhCollege, Murshidabad, West Bengal.

6. Tapashree Ghosh, Assistant professor, Department of English,Dhruba Chard Halder College, West Bengal.

7. Debaditya Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department ofEnglish, Manikchak College, West Bengal.

8. Srijita Saha, Reseai.ch Scholar, M.Phil in English fi.om Visva-Bharati.

9. Shubhendu shekhar Naskar, Assistant professor, Department ofEnglish, Basil.hat College, West Bengal.

Ms Arpita Panda Research Scholar and teaches in Nagartala F. P.School, West Bengal.

10. Arpita Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Department of English,Parimal Mitra Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Malda, West Bengal.

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11. Subhl.asleta Banerjee, Faculty Member, Department of English,BalurghatMahilaMahavidyalaya,:DakshinDinajpur,WestBengal.

12.I)rPinakiRoy,AssociateProfessorofEnglish,RaiganjUniversity,Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal.

13. Pratik Chakrabarti, Assistant Teacher, Daulatpur High School,West Bengal.

14. Sanjukta Chatterjee Sengupta, Assistant Professor and Head,DepartmentofEnglish,RaiganjUniversity,UttarDinajpur,WestBengal.

15. Swati Roy Chowdhury, Assistant Professor in English, MankarCollege,Mankar,PurbaBardhaman,WestBengal.

16. Pratima Das, Assistant Professor in English, Pingla ThanaMahavidyalaya.RanounedtranslatorinHindi.

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The Editors, TI Vol XI

Amitava Roy is currently Director, Shakespeare Centre for AdvancedResearch, Rabindra Bharati University. Former Shakespeare Professor inEnglish, Rabindra Bharati University. President, Shakespeare Society ofEastern India. Author and editor of over fifteen books and three hundredarticles and papers in national and international journals and newspapers.Globally renowned Theatre Director and Actor.

Bryan Reyholds, (USA) Ph.D UCI, is Chancellor's Professor,Department of Drama Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University ofCalifornia, Irvine, C A 92697-2775.

Sheila T. Cavanagh, (USA) Ph.D, Chair Professor, Masse-Martin/NEHDistingriishedTeachingProfessor,EmoryUniversity,Atlanta,Geongia,USA.

Subir Kumar Dhar, Ph.D, is currently Director, School of Languages,RabindraBharatiUniversity,KolkataandProfessorofEnglishatRabindraBharatiUniversity.IntemationallyacclaimedBlakeandShakespeareExpert.Author of two books and numerous papers.

Tapu Biswas, Ph. D, Assistant Professor, Dept of English and OtherModern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, West Bengal.Jt.Secretary,ShakespeareSocietyofEastem`India.Secretary,Tagore-GandhiInstitute for Culture Studies and Service -Lea.ming. Co-Convener of theWorld Shakespeare Conferences from 2004 onwards. Recipent of UGCResearch Award Post Doctoral Fellowship 2014-15.

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