Julia Hollander is a British theatre director, teacher and writer. Indian Folk Theatres makes these exceptionally versatile and upbeat contemporary theatre forms accessible to students and practitioners everywhere, and considers the ways in which theatre artists worldwide can enjoy and understand one another’s work. Keeping a firm focus on the legacy of East–West theatre interactions, Hollander places her subject in its ever-widening contemporary setting. The book examines how folk performances have influenced ‘modern’ work in the cosmopolitan urban theatres, and the manner in which folk and modern theatres intersect. The contrasting styles and contents are depicted with a strongly practical bias, harnessing expertise from practitioners, anthropologists and theatre scholars in India. Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from Maharastra Chhau, the lyrical dance theatre of Bihar and Therukoothu, satirical, ritualised epics from Tamil Nadu. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian sub-continent: Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows, as well as historical and cultural context. Hatkanangalekar is a leading Marathi literary critic and translator who has taught English at Willingdon College, Sangli. Her novel Tya Varshi, which won the Maharashtra State Award in 2009, has been translated into English as Crowfall (2013). She is the author of Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama From 1843 to the Present (2000), and editor of Satyadev Dubey: A Fifty-Year Journey through Theatre (2012). She has written two novels and two plays in Marathi. Shanta Gokhale is a writer and a theatre critic equally felicitous in Marathi and English.
He co-founded the Bodhi Natya Parishad in Mumbai in 2003 with the aim of encouraging new, socially relevant plays in Marathi. After storming the Marathi stage with his one-act Ghotbhar Pani (A Sip of Water) in 1977, which has been staged over 3,000 times, Gajvee has written eleven one-acts and thirteen full-length plays, besides a novel, two short story collections, and a volume of poetry. Premanand Gajvee is a prominent Marathi playwright.
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