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Fritz Bennewitz in India : Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (382 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781487510893
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fritz Bennewitz in IndiaDDC classification:
  • 792.0954/0904
LOC classification:
  • PN2884.E854 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Notes -- Introduction -- Bennewitz's Status and the Genealogy of the Documentary Project -- The Source Material and Its Selection and Translation -- Bennewitz and Discourses on Intercultural Theatre -- Aims and Purposes of the Book -- Part I: Fritz Bennewitz on His Work in India -- 1 The 1970s - Brechtian Experiments -- Historical Junctures -- New Delhi, 1970: Brecht, The Threepenny Opera -- Mumbai, 1973: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- An Indian Chalk Circle -- New Delhi, 1979: Brecht on Trial and Brecht's Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti -- 2  The Early 1980s - Firsts, Lows, and Highs -- Kolkata, 1980: Brecht, The Life of Galileo -- New Delhi, 1981: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Bangalore, 1982: Brecht, Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti -- New Delhi, 1982: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- 3  The Mid-1980s - Brecht and the Bard in Bhopal -- Bhopal, 1983: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- New Delhi, 1983: Shakespeare, Othello and Brecht, The Life of Galileo -- New Delhi, 1984/5: Shakespeare, Hamlet and Sophocles/Brecht, Antigone -- Bhopal, 1985: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Bhopal, 1987: Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew -- 4  The Late 1980s and Early 1990s - Gaining a Village, Losing a Country -- Heggodu, 1989: Brecht, The Good Person of Sichuan -- New Delhi, 1989/90: Volker Braun, Great Peace and Shakespeare, Twelfth Night -- Heggodu, 1990: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -- New Delhi, 1990: Shakespeare, The Tempest -- Heggodu, 1991: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night -- Mysore, 1991: Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard -- Lucknow and Dhaka (Bangladesh), 1992/3 -- Mumbai, 1993/4 -- "Otherness within Togetherness" -- Goethe, Faust I -- Part II: Perspectives on Fritz Bennewitz in India.
5  Perspectives from Bennewitz's Partners in India -- Amal Allana -- Samik Bandyopadhyay -- Akshara, K.V. -- Prasanna -- Anuradha Kapur -- 6  Essays on Bennewitz in India -- Intersections: Fritz Bennewitz's Biography and His Intercultural Work -- Bennewitz in India: Politics, Brecht, and the Human Touch -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Bennewitz's Stays and Projects in South Asia and of His Indian Projects in Germany -- Glossary of Theatre Terms, Institutions, and Cultural References -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Notes -- Introduction -- Bennewitz's Status and the Genealogy of the Documentary Project -- The Source Material and Its Selection and Translation -- Bennewitz and Discourses on Intercultural Theatre -- Aims and Purposes of the Book -- Part I: Fritz Bennewitz on His Work in India -- 1 The 1970s - Brechtian Experiments -- Historical Junctures -- New Delhi, 1970: Brecht, The Threepenny Opera -- Mumbai, 1973: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- An Indian Chalk Circle -- New Delhi, 1979: Brecht on Trial and Brecht's Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti -- 2  The Early 1980s - Firsts, Lows, and Highs -- Kolkata, 1980: Brecht, The Life of Galileo -- New Delhi, 1981: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Bangalore, 1982: Brecht, Mr. Puntila and his Man Matti -- New Delhi, 1982: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- 3  The Mid-1980s - Brecht and the Bard in Bhopal -- Bhopal, 1983: Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle -- New Delhi, 1983: Shakespeare, Othello and Brecht, The Life of Galileo -- New Delhi, 1984/5: Shakespeare, Hamlet and Sophocles/Brecht, Antigone -- Bhopal, 1985: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Bhopal, 1987: Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew -- 4  The Late 1980s and Early 1990s - Gaining a Village, Losing a Country -- Heggodu, 1989: Brecht, The Good Person of Sichuan -- New Delhi, 1989/90: Volker Braun, Great Peace and Shakespeare, Twelfth Night -- Heggodu, 1990: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream -- New Delhi, 1990: Shakespeare, The Tempest -- Heggodu, 1991: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night -- Mysore, 1991: Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard -- Lucknow and Dhaka (Bangladesh), 1992/3 -- Mumbai, 1993/4 -- "Otherness within Togetherness" -- Goethe, Faust I -- Part II: Perspectives on Fritz Bennewitz in India.

5  Perspectives from Bennewitz's Partners in India -- Amal Allana -- Samik Bandyopadhyay -- Akshara, K.V. -- Prasanna -- Anuradha Kapur -- 6  Essays on Bennewitz in India -- Intersections: Fritz Bennewitz's Biography and His Intercultural Work -- Bennewitz in India: Politics, Brecht, and the Human Touch -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Bennewitz's Stays and Projects in South Asia and of His Indian Projects in Germany -- Glossary of Theatre Terms, Institutions, and Cultural References -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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