Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre in Contemporary India: Reimagining Modern Sensibility and Socio-Cultural Engagement
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Third Theatre, Contemporary Indian Theatre, Modern Sensibility, Audience Engagement, Socio Cultural Theatre.Abstract
Badal Sircar’s concept of Third Theatre marks one of the most significant interventions in modern Indian theatre. Emerging during a period of socio-political upheaval in post-independence India. Third Theatre rejected the elitism of Proscenium theatre and the limitation of commercial performance, advocating instead a minimalist, actor-centric
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