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Sudhindra Sircar (15 July 1925 - 13 May 2011), also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, Shatabdi ...
Aug 13, 2019 · Badal Sircar (1925-2011), playwright, director, received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968, Padma Shri in 1972, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship – Ratna Sadsya – in 1997. He declined the Padma Bhushan in 2010 saying he was already a Sahitya Akademi Fellow, the highest recognition for a writer.
A fine example of Sircar’s signature egalitarian ‘third theatre’, Micchil presents the chaos of death and oppression in the backdrop of Naxalite movement and the subsequent brutal rampage of the police by killing youth to suppress it.
May 25, 2021 · Badal Sircar’s Omniscient commitment to the Theatre of social change after independence especially during the 1960s. The decade witnessed formation of art in many parts of the world including India.
Sep 30, 2015 · Badal Sircar (1925-2011) is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of post-independence Indian theatre. As a playwright, he contributed seminal texts...
Aug 14, 2015 · Their style of theatre can be traced back to Badal Sircar—the late Bengali playwright and theatre director who pioneered the Third Theatre movement in India, and whom the members of...
May 15, 2011 · In between the frenzy over a political change in West Bengal, the death news of dramatist Badal Sircar, who re-wrote the history of contemporary Indian theatre, went largely overlooked.
Jan 6, 2016 · BADAL SIRCAR’s entry into Bengali theatre was a fortuitous occurrence. A town planner by training and an amateur theatre enthusiast by inclination, he became, in the second half of his...
Aug 12, 2022 · When Badal Sircar’s absurdist play Evam Indrajit was staged in 1963, it foreshadowed the angst of the Naxalite movement and created a stir in theatre circles. Sircar would later pioneer Third...
Badal Sircar (1925-2011)—along with Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, and Mohan Rakesh—is considered one of the most prominent figures in modern Indian theatre. Among the alternative theatre forms, Sircar is a well-known name who advocated innovative theatrical practice known as the ‘Third Theatre.’.
