Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights (eBook, PDF)

Creating a Profession
Redaktion: Huston-Findley, Shirley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Creating a Profession: Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights is a collection of plays demonstrating a broad variety of contemporary perspectives as told through the eyes of the women who created them. The anthology is enhanced by significant interviews between each writer and the editor and an introduction filled with information about the profession of playwriting throughout India. Details include the challenges of multiple languages throughout the country, the lack of funding and rehearsal spaces, the role of censorship, the need for specific training, and the influence of gender upon these writer's ability to find what one woman called "brain space" given the continuation of traditional gender expectations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978791176
• Artikelnr.: 74838171

Autorenporträt

Shirley Huston-Findley is professor of theater at The College of Wooster.

Inhaltsangabe

An Interview with Manjima Chatterjee
The Mountain of Bones
An Interview with Irawati Karnik
Satellite City
An Interview with Manjula Padmanabhan
Blind Date
An Interview with Sunandha Raghunathan
Pillow Talk
An Interview with Gowri Ramnarayan
Water Lilies: A Trilogy
An Interview with Anushka Ravishankar
The Cockroach Collector: A Play
An Interview with Jayshree Venkatesan
The Quest