O estudo do teatro político indiano a partir da experiência da Indian People’s Theatre Association (1943-1960)

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Ana Beatriz Pestana
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: [e-mail]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/18697
• topic: Historia del Teatro; India; Indian Theatre; Indian Political Theatre; Theatre History; Índia; História do Teatro; Teatro Político Indiano; Teatro Indiano; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA

The present research analyses the history of Indian political theatre through the experience of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), a cultural movement which has been gathering togetherIndian artists for more than seventy-five years to develop arts engaged with political struggles for social rights in different regions of India. IPTA was created in the early 1940s in a context full of social, political and cultural movements that fought for Indian independence and against oppressions in the country in that time, developed artworks engaged with national and international political struggles through theatre, music, dance, cinema and other arts and worked towards the valorization of Indian cultural and artistic knowledges, traditions and expressions.After India's independence in 1947, different factors influenced complexities in IPTA and in the 1960s the movement was disintegrated at the national level. In the 1980s, IPTA was restructured nationally and currently develops artworks engaged with social-political struggles in different regions of India. Therefore, this research analyzes the history of Indian political theatre through the experience of the Indian People's Theatre Association, encompassing the analysis of the creation of the IPTA in 1943, its artistic and political consolidation between 1943 and 1947 and the movement gradual national disintegration in the 1960s, period that contemplates the historical, political and cultural context before and after the independence of India.The research also analyzes the national restructuration of the movement, IPTA's contributions to Indian political theatre and the National Festival commemorating the seventy-five years of IPTA held in 2018 in India.