By Kathryn Hansen
The vanished global of India’s late-colonial theatre offers the backdrop for the autobiographies during this ebook. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are right here translated into English for the 1st time. those males have been schooled now not within the school room yet in huge theatrical businesses run by way of Parsi marketers. Their memoirs, replete with anecdote and humor, are as major to the certainty of the nationalist period because the lives of political leaders or social reformers.
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The rejection of courtesan culture formed part of the basis for the New Alfred imposing its ban on actresses. One effect of its policy was, of course, the revival of the institution of female impersonation. On the other hand, certain of the autobiographers comment upon changing notions of conjugality, companionate marriage, female education, and widow remarriage. Their remarks suggest the degree to which the high-caste nationalist project of women’s reform impinged on the lives and attitudes of qasba dwellers.
Hansen (1998): 2293. : 2297. 28 Stages of Life 20 and dance. In the late nineteenth century, urban theatre companies began to send agents to villages in Gujarat for the purpose of recruiting Nayak boys. When these boys arrived in Bombay or Calcutta, they were trained to become professional dancers and sing in chorus lines dressed as females. The most outstanding from their ranks matured into the leading female impersonators of the day. 30 He became Ogra’s assistant director in the New Alfred four years later.
Another was the foreigner or “madam” actress. Earlier, in Calcutta, English actresses had emerged from the ranks of officers’ wives and daughters and participated in amateur theatricals. European actresses also traveled to India specifically to work in colonial society. Mrs Deacle, who was recruited for the Sans Souci Theatre in Calcutta, subsequently moved to Bombay to manage the Grant Road Theatre. 25 There was a precedent, then, for the first white woman to achieve celebrity in the Parsi theatre.