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The Calcutta Trilogy
Rs 250 Strikingly, different from The Absence Trilogy, which focused on
the lives of individuals under social and familial stress,this other trilogy (Interview,
Calcutta 71 and Padatik), set in Calcutta in the late 60s and the early 70s, engages with the
politics of the radical Naxalite movement, with the social formations and political realities
that produced it, and the contradictions that it developed.
Vsevolod Pudovkin :
Rs 750 Vsevolod I. Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the classic troika
of Soviet film directors in the 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s. His
name ranked alongside those of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov as one of the
major cinematic innovators of his time. To audiences in the West his films were
at least as well known as- and certainly more accessible than- those of Eisenstein
and considerably more widely shown than Vertov's documentaries. The Mother
(1926), adapted from the Gorky story, The End of St. Petersburg(1927) and
Storm over Asia (also known as The Heir to Genghis Khan) (1928)
form a central part of the canon of silent 'art' cinema.
Theatre and Politics :
Rs 250 This collection of Dutt's theatre writings, including his
unpublished script for a TV feature, In Search of Theatre, records the
evolution of a theatre sensibility, nurtured on Shakespeare and Marxism, and the changing
political landscape of a country struggling to free itself from the shackles of
colonialism, the postcolonial collapse of dreams and the shock of betrayal-slowly
assuming a militant stance and committing itself to a quest for a revolutionary
theatre, a project left incomplete at his death.
Political Plays from the Seventies
Rs 175 These three very different plays are all from the turbulent 70s
in calcutta. They choose different perspectives to critique the contradictions that
surfaced in the violent confrontations between the right, the parliamentary left
and the radical left, and raised issues like the role of the intellectuals, the role
of the arts, and the meanings of violence in such a situation.
Plays for a Revolutionary Project
Rs 175 A dramatic study of revolutions in India, from the precolonial
period to the close of the colonial- a millennarian peasants' revolt in 1830-31, the
first Indian War of Independence of 1857, and a mutiny of the ratings of the Royal
Indian Navy in 1946-exploring human relationships, particularly issues of gender,
and the tensions of class and power in a revolutionary situation, all in a rich
historic ambience.
Icon and Identity
Rs 395 The employment of woman as stage actresses for the public stage in
1873 made Bengali theatre one of the earliest modern workplaces with a primarily metropolitan
base in colonial India. Based on primary material as well as extensive readings of secondary
material, this study explores from the vantage point offered by theatre history, the relationship
between cultural practices and gender roles.
Street Plays from the
Price Rs 150 A historic collection of five plays from different parts of the
country which were written in the early 80s as part of the women's movement. The
volume is introduced by an essay which studies the history of the women's movement
in India and its uses of cultural action, and contextualizes the plays, giving the
political and social situations in which they were written and performed.
Raj Darpan: A Casebook
Price Rs 250 This production by the National School of Drama deals with the
censorship codes initiated by the British in the last quarter of the 19th century.
The Dramatic Performances Act, 1876, was the first of a succession of repressive
laws such as the Vernacular Press Act and the Rowlatt Act. The playtext includes
historic material such as extracts from 19th and early 20th century plays, banned
songs from the early 20s, letters and reconstructions of legal proceedings. |
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