{"id":467,"date":"2016-03-26T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2016-03-26T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T11:00:29","slug":"issue-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/issue-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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August 1995. Editor: Anjum Katyal<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ebrahim Alkazi on theatre education in modern India: 'Within our idea of theatre must come the concepts and attitudes of a scientific age.' 'We have a plethora of groups, amateur, professional, semi-professional, in all major cities. But the work they do is sporadic, uneven and without purpose. It is this lack of purpose and of a sense of direction that leads all their efforts into the wasteland of our chaotic theatre scene.' In true Modernist manner, the condition of theatre in India becomes a 'problem' -it needs solutions. And thus the monolithic institutions of culture; our Akademis, our National School of Drama,our university drama departments with their faculty and syllabuses and a curriculum for theatre. The drive to categorize,systematize,codify,streamline: The project of Modernity. It is time to recognize the historical specificity of the urge for state-level institutionalizing of theatre education and the presumptions on which it was based. The troubled question of Modernity is examined in another light by theatre scholar and playwright G.P.Deshpande in his essay questioning the necessity for a 'national' theatre. As a national institution NSD does typify a concept of 'Indian' theatre, a unity-in- diversity rhetoric that all too often collapses heterogeneity and the alternative into a dominant recipe for cultural expression which then becomes the normative.<\/span><\/pre>\n
CONTENTS\r\n<\/span><\/strong>Is there or should there be a\u00a0<\/span>National Theatre in India?\u00a0\r\nG.P. Deshpande\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>How Apolitical is cultural policy?\u00a0\r\nThe NSD example\u00a0\r\nBiren Das Sharma\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Perspectives on the National School of Drama\r\nInterviews with Kirti Jain, D.R. Ankur, B.V. Karanth, G.V. Shivanand,\u00a0Jayadev Hattangady,\u00a0\r\nM.K. Raina Prasanna, Surendra Nath,\u00a0K.Krishan Rajan\r\n\r\n<\/span>Academization and De-academization\u00a0of theatre education:\u00a0The Kerala Experience\u00a0\r\nDr Jose George\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Setting up the Calicut University School of Drama: An Interview\u00a0\r\nS. Ramanujam\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Theatre Education at\u00a0Rabindra Bharati University (With an interview with Manoj Mitra)\u00a0\r\nAsok Dasgupta\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Medea in Bombay:\u00a0A Collaboration\r\nInterview with Nalini Malani,\r\nAlaknanda Samarth\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Theatre Log\r\nDrama Critics' Meet in Pune; A Report\r\nDr Sushama Jogalikar\r\n\r\n<\/em><\/span>Notebook\r\n\r\n<\/span>Book Pages\r\n\r\nDownload the complete issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 1995. Editor: Anjum Katyal Ebrahim Alkazi on theatre education in modern India: ‘Within our idea of theatre must come the concepts and attitudes of a scientific age.’ ‘We have a plethora of groups, amateur, professional, semi-professional, in all major cities. But the work they do is sporadic, uneven and without purpose. It is this … Continue reading “Issue 6”<\/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\/467"}],"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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seagullindia.com\/stq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}