South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres

Auteur

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, an Indian American hard-of-hearing choreographer, director, and scholar, is the Co-Director of Wild Studios Consulting, USA. The author of Hearing Difference: The Third Ear in Experimental, Deaf, and Multicultural Theatre (2006), she has also been a Theatre Topics Editor and Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar.

Texte du rabat

This book investigates translocal intimacies in relation to 21st century transnational South Asian disability theatres in order to lay out new possibilities for accessible theatres. It makes an important contribution to theatre, performance and Disability Studies as well as Feminist Studies and South Asian Studies.

Contenu

Foreword; Chapter 1. Disability in India: Towards Future Theatres; Chapter 2. Towards a Transnational Feminist Disability Performance Studies; Chapter 3. Translocal Intimacies, Disability, and the Digital; Chapter 4. Disability, Gender, and Belonging in Mahesh Dattani's Tara and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest; Chapter 5. Access Intimacy and Pedagogy: Shyambazar Blind Opera House; Chapter 6. Jana Sanskriti's The Wasteland: A Journey; Chapter 7. Changing the Theatrical Model: COVID, the First Drop Change Foundation, and Playback Theatre; Chapter 8. Towards an Accessible Theatre Practice: Building New Audiences; Afterword; Index