Audiences' Involvement to the Dramatic Performance : An Evaluation of Badal Sircar's Procession (Michhil) in the light of his 'Third Theatre'
Soumitra Chakraborty
- Pages
- pp. 5-8
- Published
- July 1, 2011
Soumitra Chakraborty (2011). Audiences' Involvement to the Dramatic Performance : An Evaluation of Badal Sircar's Procession (Michhil) in the light of his 'Third Theatre'. Labyrinth, 2(3), 5-8.
Abstract
The role of audience in the process of dramatic performance is very important. Badal Sircar, the great experimental dramatist as well as theatre-director of India has conceived a theatrical 'form', which establishes a living communication between the actors and audience and ensures audiences' involvement to the dramatic performance. His concept of theatre, which he himself named 'third theatre', rejects proscenium theatre as an arena of enacting plays and stages his self composed dramas in open space. The performers are seen to ask questions to the audience, keeping eye-to-eye contact with them in course of acting, sometimes performers are seen to sit on the ground with the audience during acting and sometimes performers appear at the acting arena from amongst the audience. But the climax of the involvement of the audience in the process of performance comes, when towards the end 5 A Tribute to ... of the performance, the actors take the audience on the stage and move round the stage, holding one another's hands
Keywords:ActorAudiencePerformanceStageDramaTheatre


