Theatre Across Borders (Record no. 49163)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01858 a2200157 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250110161523.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789356404595 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 792.01 MAJ |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Majumdar, Abhishek |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Theatre Across Borders |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Methuen Drama |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 214 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Is there a fundamental connection between New York's Elevator Repair Service's 9-hour production of The Great Gatsby and a Kathakali performance?<br/><br/>How can we come to appreciate the slowness of Kabuki theatre as much as the pace of the Whatsapp theatre of post-Arab Spring Turkey?<br/><br/>Can we go beyond our own culture's contemporary definition of a 'good play' and think about the theatre in a deep and pluralistic manner?<br/><br/>Drawing on his extensive experience working with theatre artists, students and thinkers across the globe - up to and including an hour-long audience with the Dalai Lama - playwright Abhishek Majumdar considers why we make theatre and how we see it in different parts of the world.<br/><br/>His own work has taken him from theatre in Japan to dance companies in the Phillippines, writers in Lebanon and Palestine, theatre groups in Burkina Faso, war-torn areas like Kashmir and North Eastern India, and to China and Tibet, Argentina and Mexico.<br/><br/>Via a far-reaching and provocative collection of essays that is informed by this wealth of experience, Majumdar explores:<br/>- how different cultures conceive theatre and how the norm of one place is the experiment of another;<br/>- the ways in which theatre across the world mirrors its socio political and philosophical climate;<br/>- how, for thousands of years, theatre has been a tool to both disrupt and to heal;<br/>- and how, even within the many differences, there are universals from which we can all learn and how theatre does cross borders |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Theatre Makers |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
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