The City as Stage
by Sudhanva Deshpande
Drawing on his personal experience as a city street theatre actor and director, Deshpande critically examines Peter Brook’s idea of, empty space becoming a performance space. Because the spaces where a street play is staged are never empty, instead they are charged with histories of contestations and therefore a performance has to contend with, become part of, and be partisan in, this contestation over spaces in the city.
