{"id":407,"date":"2016-03-26T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2016-03-26T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T12:25:24","slug":"issue-16","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/iss16.jpg\" alt=\"iss16\" width=\"175\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">December 1997. Editor: Anjum Katyal<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #808080;\">And there, poised on the ridge, between the dark loamy ferment of creative growth and the hard sun of material reality, is Pralayan's voice saying, 'The process is very important...how we make a play...' and 'without the commitment, without politics oriented toward the people, you can't stay in street theatre'. And Sudhanva Deshpande passionately insisting on poetry in theatre of the Left; and Mala Hashmi explaining how drama has to be created and crafted, even on the streets, even when the message, the political communication, is primary. This tumultuous space of questioning, of precarious balance between creative fulfilment and political purpose, between inward and outward, is the space criss-crossed in this issue. By those who walk the tightrope. Over and over again.\r\n\r\n'One doesn't resound without the other.'<\/span><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">CONTENTS\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">The 'Inexhaustible Work\u00a0of Criticism in Action':\u00a0Street Theatre of the Left\u00a0\r\n<em>Sudhanva Deshpande\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Woman (Aurat): an Extract\u00a0\r\nJana Natya Manch\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Theatrescapes\u00a0\r\n<em>Samik Bandyopadhyay\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Street Theatre in Bengal:\u00a0A Glimpse\u00a0\r\n<em>Bulbuli Biswas<\/em> and <em>Paramita Banerjee\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Nurul doesn't Die (Nurul Marey Na)\u00a0\r\nA Playscript\u00a0\r\n<em>Shyamaltanu Dasgupta\r\n<\/em>\r\n'Street Theatre is Here and Now'\u00a0\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">A Panel Discussion\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">'Drama has to be Created and Crafted,\u00a0Even on the Streets'\u00a0\r\n<em>Mala Hashmi\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">'Why do we Choose to do Street Theatre? The Answer is always Political, It has to be'\r\n<em>Pralayan<\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Theatre Log\r\nStreet Theatre Groups: Brief Profiles\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">National Open-Air Theatre\u00a0Festival in Calcutta\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Sombhu Mitra Memorial Lecture\r\n<em>Paramita Banerjee\r\n\r\n<\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/pdf\/stq16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the complete issue here<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1997. Editor: Anjum Katyal And there, poised on the ridge, between the dark loamy ferment of creative growth and the hard sun of material reality, is Pralayan&#8217;s voice saying, &#8216;The process is very important&#8230;how we make a play&#8230;&#8217; and &#8216;without the commitment, without politics oriented toward the people, you can&#8217;t stay in street theatre&#8217;. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Issue 16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}