[Review of] So Near, Yet So Far: Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre, by Manujendra Kundu

Publication Date

Fall 8-21-2017

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Title

Modern Drama

Volume

60

Issue

3

DOI

10.3138/md.60.3.401

First Page

401

Last Page

404

Abstract

In So Near, Yet So Far: Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre, Manujendra Kundu navigates Badal Sircar’s expansive range of canonical works. Tracing the birth, evolution, and eventual dissolution of Sircar’s Third Theatre, the book reveals contradictions between Sircar’s inclusive communist ideologies and their incomplete execution, which, ironically, excluded the marginalized and downtrodden.

Keywords

Bengali theatre, Badal Sircar, Third theatre

Department

Film and Theatre

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