Ratan Thiyam, the Glossary
Ratan Thiyam (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian playwright and theatre director, and the winner of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987, one of leading figures of the "theatre of roots" movement in Indian theatre, which started in the 1970s.[1]
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48 relations: Agyeya, Andha Yug, Antigone (Anouilh play), Ashoka, Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Bharata (sage), Bhāsa, Bhupen Hazarika, Columbia University Press, Demographics of India, Dharamvir Bharati, Edinburgh International Festival, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Government of India, Henrik Ibsen, Hiroshima, Huiyen Lallong, Imphal, India Habitat Centre, Jean Anouilh, Kalidas Samman, Kalidasa, Lairembigee Eshei, Macbeth, Mahabharata, Manipur, Meitei language, Meitei people, Minister of Communications (India), National School of Drama, Natya Shastra, Noh, Padma Shri, Rabindranath Tagore, Raja (play), Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, The Economic Times, The Hindu, The Indian Express, The New York Times, The Telegraph (India), Theatre of ancient Greece, Theatre of India, Urubhanga, When We Dead Awaken.
- Academic staff of the National School of Drama
- Dramatists and playwrights from Manipur
- Indian arts administrators
- Indian drama teachers
- Indian scenic designers
Agyeya
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language.
Andha Yug
Andha Yug (Hindi: अंधा युग, The Age of Blindness or The Blind Age) is a 1953 verse play written in Hindi, by renowned novelist, poet, and playwright Dharamvir Bharati (1926–1997).
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Antigone (Anouilh play)
Jean Anouilh's play Antigone is a tragedy inspired by the play of the same name by Sophocles.
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Ashoka
Ashoka, also known as Asoka or Aśoka (– 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha in the Indian subcontinent from until 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
Bharat Rang Mahotsav
Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM) (भारत रंग महोत्सव) or the National Theatre Festival, started in 1999, is the annual theatre festival organised by National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi.
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Bharata (sage)
Bharata (Devanagari: भरत) was a muni (sage) of ancient India.
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Bhāsa
Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa. Ratan Thiyam and Bhāsa are Indian male dramatists and playwrights.
Bhupen Hazarika
Bhupen Hazarika (8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor, artist, editor, filmmaker, professor and politician from Assam, widely known as Sudha Kontho (meaning cuckoo, literally "nectar-throated"). Ratan Thiyam and Bhupen Hazarika are Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts, Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Demographics of India
India is the most populous country in the world with one-sixth of the world's population.
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Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. Ratan Thiyam and Dharamvir Bharati are 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights, Indian male dramatists and playwrights and Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
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Edinburgh International Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August.
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Festival Internacional Cervantino
The Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), popularly known as El Cervantino, is a festival which takes place each fall in the city of Guanajuato, located in central Mexico.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.
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Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
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Huiyen Lallong
Huiyen Lallong is a traditional Meitei martial art form.
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Imphal
Imphal is the capital city of the Indian state of Manipur.
India Habitat Centre
The India Habitat Centre is a multipurpose building in the city of New Delhi, India.
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Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.
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Kalidas Samman
The Kalidas Samman (कालिदास सम्मान) is an arts award presented annually by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in India.
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Kalidasa
Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. Ratan Thiyam and Kalidasa are Indian male dramatists and playwrights.
Lairembigee Eshei
Lairembigee Eshei (/lāi.rem.bi.gi í.səi/, lit. Song of the Goddess), also known as Song of the Nymphs, is a Meitei language play, written and directed by Ratan Thiyam, performed by the "Chorus Repertoire Theatre" of Imphal.
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Macbeth
Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Manipur
Manipur (Kangleipak|) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.
Meitei language
Meitei, also known as Manipuri, is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India.
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Meitei people
The Meitei people, Meetei,P.20: "historically, academically and conventionally Manipuri prominently refers to the Meetei people."P.24: "For the Meeteis, Manipuris comprise Meeteis, Lois, Kukis, Nagas and Pangal." Manipuri people is an ethnic group native to Manipur.
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Minister of Communications (India)
The Minister of Communications (संचार मंत्री) is the head of the Ministry of Communications and a senior member of the union council of ministers of the Government of India.
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National School of Drama
National School of Drama (NSD) is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India.
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Natya Shastra
The Nāṭya Shāstra (Nāṭyaśāstra) is a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts.
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Noh
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
Padma Shri
The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. Ratan Thiyam and Rabindranath Tagore are 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights and Indian male dramatists and playwrights.
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Raja (play)
Raja (রাজা), (also known as The King of the Dark Chamber in the English translation), is a play by Rabindranath Tagore written in 1910.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi
Sangeet Natak Akademi (The National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama in English) is the national level academy for performing arts set up by the Government of India.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (IAST: Saṅgīta Nāṭaka Akādamī Puraskāra), also known as the Akademi Puraskar, is an award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
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Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
The Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, also known as Akademi Ratna Sadasyata, is an Indian honour for the performing arts presented by Sangeet Natak Akademi. Ratan Thiyam and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship are Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
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Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra
Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra (SBKK) is an Indian cultural institution which runs a school for music, dance and performing arts in New Delhi.
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The Economic Times
The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Telegraph (India)
The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.
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Theatre of ancient Greece
A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC.
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Theatre of India
Theatre of India is one of the most ancient forms of theatre and it features a detailed textual, sculptural, and dramatic effects which emerged in mid first millennium BC.
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Urubhanga
Urubhanga or Urubhangam, (italic) is a Sanskrit play written by Bhasa in the 2nd or 3rd century CE.
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When We Dead Awaken
When We Dead Awaken (Når vi døde vågner) is the last play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.
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See also
Academic staff of the National School of Drama
- Amal Allana
- Amitesh Grover
- B. M. Shah
- B. V. Karanth
- Bansi Kaul
- Barry John (theatre director)
- Ebrahim Alkazi
- Mohan Maharishi
- Mohan Upreti
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Ratan Thiyam
- Rita Ganguly
- Satyabrata Rout
- Suresh Bhardwaj (actor)
- Vijaya Mehta
- Waman Kendre
Dramatists and playwrights from Manipur
- Ratan Thiyam
Indian arts administrators
- Abanindranath Tagore
- Amal Allana
- Ashok Vajpeyi
- B. M. Shah
- B. V. Karanth
- Bellary Raghava
- Biman Bihari Das
- C. Pullayya
- Chintamoni Kar
- Ebrahim Alkazi
- Gurajada Apparao
- Jagdish Swaminathan
- Jyotindra Jain
- K. G. Subramanyan
- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
- Kapila Vatsyayan
- Kekoo Gandhy
- Kisory Roy
- Leela Samson
- Madhup Mudgal
- Maya Rao
- Mohan Maharishi
- Mukul Dey
- Naina Devi (singer)
- Nandalal Bose
- O. P. Jain
- R. Siva Kumar
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Ranbir Singh Bisht
- Ratan Thiyam
- Rukmini Devi Arundale
- Samarendranath Gupta
- Shanti Dave
- Snehalata Reddy
- Sundari K. Shridharani
- Tikkavarapu Pattabhirama Reddy
- V. Nagayya
- Vedam Venkataraya Sastry
Indian drama teachers
- Abhilash Pillai
- Adil Hussain
- Alok Chatterjee
- Amal Allana
- Anupam Kher
- Arvind Gaur
- Balwant Gargi
- Bharti Sharma
- Deepan Sivaraman
- Dinesh Khanna (director)
- Ebrahim Alkazi
- Heisnam Kanhailal
- Janak Dave
- Javed Khan Amrohi
- Kishore Namit Kapoor
- Mahendra Mewati
- Mohan Maharishi
- Naseeruddin Shah
- Norah Richards
- Ratan Thiyam
- Santanu Bose
- Shanta Gandhi
- Sreejith Ramanan
Indian scenic designers
- Amal Allana
- Ebrahim Alkazi
- Kamlakant Chari
- M. S. Sathyu
- Rajeev Sethi
- Ratan Thiyam
- Satyabrata Rout
- Shama Zaidi
- Suresh Bhardwaj (actor)