"Changing Vocabularies of Theatre" & "Bringing in a New Language of Indian Realism"

 

Join the Centre for South Asian Studies as guest speaker, and Indian theatre director, Anamika Haksar lectures on "Changing Vocabularies of Theatre" & "Bringing in a New Language of Indian Realism" . This talk will mainly be in the context of Anamika's own work.

 

 

Anamika Haksar is a theatre director trained under Badal Sircar and the National School of Drama under Shri B. V. Karanth (1979-1982).

 

The only Indian to train in the most prestigious Theatre Institute in Moscow Gitis, The State Institute of Theatrical Arts. She was awarded Lenin's Diploma of Excellence for Direction (1982-1988). She formulated the syllabus for the production process for the National School of Drama in the 1990s. She has trained some of the most eminent theatre directors today as well as actors in contemporary theatre cinema and television. She is credited with Bringing a new language of visual metaphorical poetic theatre to India in a contemporary context as well as a relook at Indian realism.

 

She has directed over 25 productions and has been on the Academic Council, at the National School of Drama, during the directorship of Dr. Anuradha Kapur. She is the only Indian to have studied and Received Stanislavski from the Soviet Union