Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora [Paperback]

This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africamany published here for the first timedelves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of diaspora by drawing on cultural references as diverse as classical Indian texts, adaptations of Shakespeare and Homer, current events, and world music, film, and dance. Neilesh Bose provides historical background on South Asian migration and performance traditions in each region, along with critical introductions and biographical background on each playwright.

Includes works by Anuvab Pal, Aasif Mandvi, Shishir Kurup, Rahul Varma, Rana Bose, Rukhsana Ahmad, Jatinder Verma, Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, Ronnie Govender, Kessie Govender, and Kriben Pillay.

The South Asian immigrant experience on stage

Neilesh Bose is a historian and theatre artist. He has published reviews and criticism inTDR;Theatre Survey;Theatre Journal;Catamaran: A Journal of South Asian American Writingand other publications.

By any estimation, 'Beyond Bollywood and Broadway' is an amazing start to a discussion of South Asian diaspora theatre . . . . This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in postcolonial migration, diaspora communitites and arts, or theatrical traditions in any of these countries.2009

The collection is well-structured, with a broad historical overview of the South Asian Diaspora and of its theatre, followed by four distinct sections, each dealing with a selected locale and selected playwrights, with a representative play for each. Bose does not succumb to the temptation of covering too much ground cursorily. The strength of the book is its judicious balance between breadth and depth. 11/16/2010

. . . fills a conspicuous gap in the literature of the South Asian diaspora. July 1, 2009

An important contribution to the field of South lÓ=