Curtain call | Ananda Lal's 'Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural'

With ageing infrastructure and little patronage, theatre in India has been treated as a forgotten, unwanted child for decades. This, in turn, is reflected in the dearth of meaningful writing on Indian theatre. Centrestage fills in that lacuna with deep research and insights. A former professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Ananda Lal has spent the better part of the past five decades reviewing theatre productions, besides being a prominent theatre director himself.