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Present-Day Kutiyattam

G. Venu's Radical and Reactionary Sanskrit Theatre

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ID14997307
AuthorsChristian Ducomb (Christian DuComb is a third-year PhD student in theatre and performance studies at Brown University. After graduating from Haverford College with a BA in English in 2001, Christian spent a year traveling and studying theatre internationally on a fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. His research on how cultural conceptions of performance space mediate relationships between audiences and performers led him to Kerala and his research on kutiyattam. Since 2003, he has cocreated and performed in..., corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume51
Issue3
Pages98-117
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/dram.2007.51.3.98
OpenAlexW1983836736
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

G. Venu, a scholar and practitioner of kutiyattam, responds to contemporary political conditions in Kerala and draws on the work of India's experimental Theatre of Roots movement in his unexpectedly classical production of Sakuntala. Though imbricated in both the traditional and the avantgarde—creating what Venu aptly calls “present-day kutiyattam”—the question remains: will the project's politics be read to the radical or the revolutionary

Art · Literature · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sanskrit · History · Law · Social and Economic Development in India

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Citation span2020 - 2023 (4)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
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