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Sudhindra Sircar (15 July 1925 - 13 May 2011), also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, Shatabdi ...
Badal Sircar (1925-2011)—along with Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, and Mohan Rakesh—is considered one of the most prominent figures in modern Indian theatre. Among the alternative theatre forms, Sircar is a well-known name who advocated innovative theatrical practice known as the ‘Third Theatre.’
- Suvankar Ghosh Roy Chowdhury
Sep 30, 2015 · Badal Sircar (1925-2011) is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of post-independence Indian theatre. As a playwright, he contributed seminal texts which...
- Anjum Katyal
- SAGE Publications, 2015
- 9351503712, 9789351503712
- Badal Sircar: Towards a Theatre of Conscience
Badal Sircar (1925-2011): A Curtain Call for Political Theatre SADANAND MENON A tribute to Badal Sircar, the radical theatre personality of Bengal, who over four decades rewrote the language of political theatre in India. Badal Sircar was no politician; nei ther was he a teacher. However when he set out on the second phase of his theatre-making ...
May 1, 2016 · The incandescence of Badal Sircar redefined the identity of the urban Indian performance space. His example continues to influence political theatre-makers not only in South Asia, but also in the global theatre scene at large.
May 25, 2021 · Badal Sircar gave up contemporary set conventions, montage of past and present, and introduced fragmentary scenes, with experiments with the language. Sircar also rejected the conventional features of drama such as ‘unity of action’, ‘unity of time’ and so on.
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May 15, 2011 · In between the frenzy over a political change in West Bengal, the death news of dramatist Badal Sircar, who re-wrote the history of contemporary Indian theatre, went largely overlooked.
