CONTENTS Editor's Note A. .V Rajettdran 3 World Theatre Day Message 27 March 2004 Fatjia fl Assal . 5 ARTICLES Actors Preapre Aintradha Kapitr 7 The Text and the Context: Multiple Narratives Prasanna Ramasiratny 29 50th Birth Anniversary of Safdar Hashmi: I Remember..Safdar M K Raina 34 The life and Death of White Desdemona and Black Othello: Through Abhinava Kalidasa-A Re-Interpretation H S Shiva Prakasb 40 Foreign Origins/Native Destinations: Shakespeare and the Logic of Vernacular Public Stage javed Malick 44 INTERVIEWS Silence is Held Speech and Stillness is Held Movement Rob Clare ImmiemJ by K S Rajemlran 56 Sujan-Lori Parks: The Still, Sad Music of Humanity Suzan-Lori Parks Imereieived by H S Shiva Prakasb 74 Arun Mukhopadfyay: Three Decades in Bengali Theatre Arun Mukhopadhyay PLAY Shakespeare Dreamship by H S Shiva Prakash Trans: axmi Cbandrasekbcir SIXTH NATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL OF INDIA (Bharat Rang Mahotsav - Bhamngam 2004) The Contours of Theatre in India Today in the Mirror of Bharangam 2004 Chaman Ahuja 130 Theatre Back Home: The Foreign Visitors' Versions Chaman Ahuja 146 The Theatre of Ratan Thiyam Kaata Nappal 158 Visual Extravaganza or Theatre ? Kannada Plays in Bharangam H S Shim Prakash 164 The Tamil Segment of Bharangam I 'enkat Swaminathan 168 The Boiling Cauldron of Bengali Drama Vtpal K Baflerjee 174 RANG VISTAR 25 Years of Extension Programme : Some Thoughts K M Join 186 REPORTS Indian Theatre: Text and Performance A Report of the First ISTR Conference Pilltii 191 De-canonizing Indian Theatre A Report of the Playwrights Workshop, Imphal, 8-12 April, 2004 hy Lokendra Arambam 195 BOOK REVIEWS Problems of Hindi Theatre Laiit Moban Thapalyal 199 The Theatre of S Ramanujam Sivaminathan 204 Revolutionary as a Thinker