Indian Folk Theatres

Indian Folk Theatres is theatre anthropology as a lived experience, containing detailed accounts of recent folk theatre shows as well as historical and cultural context. It looks at folk theatre forms from three corners of the Indian subcontinent:

• Tamasha, song and dance entertainments from Maharastra
• Chhau, the lyrical dance theatre of Bihar
• Theru Koothu, satirical, ritualised epics from Tamil Na...