Friday, October 2, 2009

They represent an absolute extreme of purity


“They represent an absolute extreme of purity: a peasant company directed by a highly sophisticated man who brings them up to town taken every conceivable to prevent the town from contaminating them. They go back to their villages tat harvest tine. They speak their local hindi patois … it’s pop art, using the vocabulary of natural fun, and on that sense the naya shows could be from anywhere. But there’s something about this part of India that makes then very talented. They’re born actors. What they produce together is an enormous variety of stories that they tell completely on their own terms: not only village fables, but bits of Brecht and ‘The Bourgeois Gentihomme’ with no apparent difference. From folk tales to Moliere it’s all one seamless movement deriving from their experience of life. There’s no halfway house between the local root and the foreign style.”
PETER BROOK in THE LONDON TIMES

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