Modern Indian Plays, Vol. III

Contents: Preface. 1. Agra Bazaar/Habib Tanvir. 2. Chakravyuha/Ratan Thiyam. 3. Einstein/Mohan Maharishi. 4. Indumati and Satyadev/C.D. Sidhu. 5. Tale told by a Scorched Tree/Bhanu Bharti. 6. Hunting the sun/Utpal Dutt. 7. Food/Arun Sarma. 8. Trishanku/B.M. Shah. 9. Way beyond/Prasanna.

"The third volume not only sketches the picture of writings in the first two volumes, but portrays the concerns of directors in the last fifty years of the development of theatre.

The directors themselves have scripted all plays in this volume, which point towards certain trends: they are based on personalities-Naseer, the Urdu poet in Habib Tanvir\'s Agra Bazaar, Einstein in Mohan Maharishi\'s Einstein and Bhartendu in Prasanna\'s Way Beyond.

Myths, epics and folklore are adapted to modern sensibility, as in Chakravyuh and Tale Told by a Scorched Tree. Completely dealing with modern problems the plays are based in different places in India like Assam, Karnataka, West Bengal or languages: Urdu, Punjabi, Assamese, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali." (jacket)