Rangmanch ke Siddhant

There has been a long-awaited book in Hindi that provides the theatrical theories prevalent in the East and West in one place and in a comprehensible language. Theatre Ke Siddhant fulfills this purpose. This book, skillfully edited by contemporary theatre scholar Mahesh Anand and renowned theatre artist Devendra Raj Ankur, who has been pursuing the practical and theoretical aspects of theatre with equal dedication, examines the theories of theatre from Aristotle to Bharatendu and then Badal Sarkar, through expert scholars and theatre practitioners. This book reveals that theatre is not merely the performance of a play by actors on stage. Thinkers and theatre artists in every era have pondered the relationship of theatre with society, humanity, their psyche, and destiny, and have been exploring and developing new styles to establish theatre as an increasingly reliable representation of human life. An attempt has been made to present the various theories and styles that served as guiding principles for theatre in their time and continue to inspire our thinking today. The thinkers whose theories have been analyzed include: Aristotle, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Artaud, Brecht, Craig, Michael Chekhov, Grotowski, Peter Brook, Zeami, Bharat, Bharatendu, Prasad, and Badal Sarkar.