BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2d75c8fb406d7937971c52d7da5bef2f CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20211120T121116 SUMMARY:'Staging Real Life' Talk By Prof. Sharmistha Saha (Theatre Director & Faculty, IIT Bombay) DESCRIPTION:Sharmistha Saha (Theatre Director & Faculty, IIT Bombay) will deliver h er talk on 'Staging Real Life'  in Prof Ashutosh Potdar's class on Friday, August 16, 2019 from 12.00 to 2.00 PM In her talk, Ms Saha would discuss th e process of narrativization in theatre with reference to the creation of h er theatre work 'Romeo Ravidas Aur Juliet Devi'. If you are interested, ple ase come.\nVenue: RNJ002 \nSynopsis:\nThe lecture demonstration would prima rily look at the process of narrativization in creating the theatre piece ' Romeo Ravidas Aur Juliet Devi'. The play interweaves a series of newspaper articles about and interviews of the activist Kaushalya whose husband Shank ar was murdered by her father and a newspaper report on the death of Pradee p Rathod. What if the reported dead, those that have been long forgotten, a re resurrected and came alive to interact with our world today? How would t hey react to those fighting their cause? Do the dead and long forgotten see k justice or are they comfortably gone? How would we imagine an encounter o f those who were victims of social apathy and atrocity and those who seek j ustice for them? Can we have such a duality of the dead and the alive or do these past forgone narratives define the subjectivities of those who fight for them? What is the relationship between the oppressed and the activist? And what is the relationship between the activist and the oppressor? The l ecture demonstration would primarily look at the process of the making of t he theatre piece finally trying to address the question of truth in fiction and especially fiction in theatre.\n Bio:\nSharmistha Saha is a theatre sc holar and practitioner based in Mumbai. Her book ‘Theatre and National Iden tity in Colonial India’ was published Aakar/Springer in 2018 and she is cur rently working on an edited volume ‘Performance Making and the Archive’ to be published by Routledge and one more edited volume on English Theatre in Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century Bombay to be published by M anipal University Press. She is the recipient of the Asia Art Archive/Inlak s Art Grant 2017-18. Saha completed her doctoral and postdoctoral studies f rom Freie Universität in Berlin before joining Indian Institute of Technolo gy Bombay as faculty in 2016.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Sharmistha Saha (Theatre Director & Facult y, IIT Bombay) will deliver her talk on 'Staging Real Life'  in Prof Ashuto sh Potdar's class on Friday, August 16, 2019 from 12.00 to 2.00 PM< /strong> In her talk, Ms Saha would discuss the process of narrativization in theatre with reference to the creation of her theatre work 'Romeo Ravida s Aur Juliet Devi'. If you are interested, please come.

Venue: RNJ002 

Synopsis:

The lecture demonstration would primarily look at the proc ess of narrativization in creating the theatre piece 'Romeo Ravidas Aur Jul iet Devi'. The play interweaves a series of newspaper articles about and in terviews of the activist Kaushalya whose husband Shankar was murdered by he r father and a newspaper report on the death of Pradeep Rathod. What if the reported dead, those that have been long forgotten, are resurrected and ca me alive to interact with our world today? How would they react to those fi ghting their cause? Do the dead and long forgotten seek justice or are they comfortably gone? How would we imagine an encounter of those who were vict ims of social apathy and atrocity and those who seek justice for them? Can we have such a duality of the dead and the alive or do these past forgone n arratives define the subjectivities of those who fight for them? What is th e relationship between the oppressed and the activist? And what is the rela tionship between the activist and the oppressor? The lecture demonstration would primarily look at the process of the making of the theatre piece fina lly trying to address the question of truth in fiction and especially ficti on in theatre.

 Bio:

Sharmistha Saha is a theatre scholar and practitioner based in Mumbai. Her book ‘Theatre and National Identity in Co lonial India’ was published Aakar/Springer in 2018 and she is currently wor king on an edited volume ‘Performance Making and the Archive’ to be publish ed by Routledge and one more edited volume on English Theatre in Eighteenth Century and Early Nineteenth Century Bombay to be published by Manipal Uni versity Press. She is the recipient of the Asia Art Archive/Inlaks Art Gran t 2017-18. Saha completed her doctoral and postdoctoral studies from Freie Universität in Berlin before joining Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as faculty in 2016.

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