Parsi Theatre in Colonial Burma: The Showman, the Scene, the Consequence

 

 

Illustrated lecture by Kathryn Hansen, leading scholar of South Asian theatre history, with special expertise in the popular traditions in Hindi and Urdu and Professor Emerita of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, where she served as Director of the Center for Asian Studies. Her book, Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies, presents the life stories of four artists from the Parsi theatre. Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India, her first monograph, won the A.K. Coomaraswamy Book Prize

Chair: Dr. Shernaz Cama

 

 

(Collaboration: PARZOR)