This volume is an edited collection of critical essays on British Asian theatre. It includes contributions from a number of researchers who have been active in the field for a substantial period of time.
This title is complemented by British South Asian Theatres: A Documented History by the same authors, also available from University of Exeter Press.
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Graham Ley is professor of Drama and Theory at the University of Exeter and leader for the AHRC project. His work has ranged from antiquity to the present day. He has been a joint editor of the Performance Studies series from its inception; he is also a joint editor of the series Performance Practises for Palgrave.
Dr Sarah Dadswell is the full-time Research Fellow for the AHRC project; she is a cultural historian, with expertise in the twentieth century, notably in Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre. Dadswell is also joint editor of Victory over the Sun for Artist BookWorks, with Rosamund Bartlett.
Contributors
Rukhsana Ahmad co-founded Kali Theatre Company (with Rita Wolf) and led it into revenue funding. Her theatre credits include: Song for a Sanctuary, River on Fire (finalist for the Susan Smith-Blackburn International Prize) The Gate-Keeper's Wife and Mistaken .... Radio adaptations include: Wide Sargasso Sea, Maps for Lost Lovers, Midnight's Children and The Far Pavilions.
Chris Banfield has worked as a drama lecturer, freelance theatre director, and teacher with an interest in Indian theatre for over twenty years. He has run a range of theatre practice workshops during that time for students in IndiaAllahabad, Chennai and Madurai as well as in the UK. He is co-author, with Brian Crow, of An Introduction to Post-colonial Theatre (1996) in which he discusses the plays of Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad. He currently teaches at Ibstock Place School, Roehampton and lives in Battersea, south-west London.
Suman Bhuchar has a long career in PR, marketing and arts production. Highlights include award winning documentaries: The Journalist & The Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl (HBO, nominated for 2 Emmys); Dead Man Talking: a forensic murder investigation by Hampshire Police (Channel 4) & Alone Together: Portrait of the Singh twins winner 'Best film on Art', Asolo Film Festival 2001. She writes for numerous publications and is a speaker/curator of seminars on Asian arts and Bollywood cinema. She is a regular contributor to www.theatrevoice.com and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Giovanna Buonanno lectures in English at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is the author of International Actresses on the Victorian Stage (2002) and has published articles on modern and contemporary British and Italian theatre, intercultural drama, black British culture, black and Asian British women's writing. She is currently working at a monograph on British Asian women writers.
Colin Chambers is Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Formerly a journalist and theatre critic, he was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997. His books include: The Story of Unity Theatre (1989); the award-winning Peggy: the Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent (1997); The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (editor and contributor, 2002); Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company: Creativity and the Institution (2004); Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and PerformancePaul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie Chaplin (2006); and Black and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History (2011).
Dr Claire Cochrane is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance at Worcester University. As the author of Birmingham Rep: A City's Theatre 19622002 (Birmingham: The Sir Barry Jackson Trust, 2003)she explored the theatre's record in the development of British Asian and Black British actors and playwrights. Other recent essays have widened the exploration to other venues in Birmingham and at Nottingham Playhouse. Her latest book, Twentieth Century British Theatre Industry, Art and Empire,published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press incorporates the Black British experience of theatre into the landscape of UK theatre as a whole across the century.
Susan Croft is Co-Director of the project Unfinished Histories: Recording the History of Alternative Theatre www.unfinishedhistories.comandClive Barker Research Fellow at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. She was Senior Curator (Contemporary Performance) at the V&A Theatre Museum from 19972005 where she initiated a range of projects foregrounding black and Asian materials in the collections including web resources, exhibitions and editing Black and Asian Perform...
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Introduction
1. British Asian Theatre: the Long Road to Now, and the Barriers in-between, Naseem Khan
2. Images on Stage: a Historical Survey of South Asians in British Theatre before 1975, Colin Chambers
3. Bridging Divides: the Emergence of Bilingual Theatre in Tower Hamlets in the 1980s, Susan Croft
4. Experiments in Theatre from the Margins: Text, Performance and New Writers, Rukhsana Ahmad
5. Dramatising Refuge(e)s: Rukhsana Ahmad's Song for a Sanctuary and Tanika Gupta's Sanctuary, Christiane Schlote
6. Directing Storytelling Performance and Storytelling Theatre, Chris Banfield
7. Engaging the Audience: a Comparative Analysis of Developmental Strategies in Birmingham and Leicester since the 1990s, Claire Cochrane
8. Patriarchy and Its Discontents: the 'Kitchen-Sink Drama' of Tamasha Theatre Company, Victoria Sams
9. The Marketing of Commercial and Subsidised Theatre to British Asian Audiences: Tamasha's Fourteen Songs, Two Weddings and a Funeral (1998 and 2001) and Bombay Dreams (2002), Suman Bhuchar
10. Mixing with the Mainstream: Transgressing the Identity of Place, Jerri Daboo
11. Between Page and Stage: Meera Syal in British Asian Culture, Giovanna Buonanno
12. Imagine, Indiaah ... on the British Stage: Exploring Tara's 'Binglish' and Tamasha's Brechtian Approaches, Chandrika Patel
13. British Asian Live Art: motirot…