 For two days in August, join us we host a launch and series of readings celebrating Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora, a collection of South Asian diasporic plays. Edited by Neilesh Bose, this book includes eleven plays from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada, the four main English-speaking regions of the diaspora.
Showcasing themes like immigrant consciousness, race and racialism, intra- and inter-ethnic conflict and solidarity, socio-economic class, and adaptations of classic Western drama, this collection of plays represents a diverse set of aesthetics and politics. Integrating veteran talents like the South African Ronnie Govender, American theatre and television personalities like Aasif Mandvi, and British Asian innovators like Jatinder Verma and Rukhsana Ahmad, the program will feature the most contemporary dramatic literature emanating from the diaspora today. With special guests Aroon Shivdasani (Director of the Indo-American Arts Council), Ian Morgan (Assoc. Artistic Director, The New Group), and Paul Knox, Playwright.
In Collaboration with the Indo-American Arts Council, SALAAM Theatre, and South Asian Theatre Movement (SATAM).
Neilesh Bose is an historian and theatre artist who specializes in South Asia history, South Asian diasporas, and performance studies. He holds a PhD in South Asian history from Tufts University. In addition to his edited anthology, Between Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora (Indiana, 2009), other theatre-related publications include a translation, jointly with Sudipto Chatterjee, of Utpal Dutt’s play The Rights of Man (Maanusher Adhikare) (Seagull, 2009) and Shylock and Sharuk: The Creation of a South Asian American Aesthetic in South Asian Popular Culture (2009 special summer edition). |
