Volume : IV, Issue : V, May - 2015

Theatre–Seed Centre for Social Transformations

Dr. Jayant Shevtekar

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 Theatre is not only a team–art but also an audio–visual medium. Theatre activity provides an opportunity to  build a dialogue with many people at a time. Theatre has the capacity the change the minds of the audience  through dialogues, situations touching their hearts. Direct communication is the strength of the Theatre. Indian society is caste–based. There are disputes amongst the castes, males–females, philosophy, psychology etc. In other words, inequality is the base of Indian Society and is a serious problem as well. It’s a grief of multi–religious, multi–strata Indian society. The low literacy rate minimizes the scope for exchange of thoughts. We understand all the problems but are unable construe. Still in the  era of revolution & changes, it was given a though by every field. Moreover appropriate remedial measures were also found. Folk forms  of art like Satyashodhaki Jalase, Ambedkari Jalase, Tamasha, Kalapathake etc were used as a medium and they seem to have made a  significant impact on the masses. Literature, Picture, Dramatization, Dance, Sculpture all these arts have thick bondage with human  life. Arts ser4ve the purpose of propagation & spreading Indian Culture, Philosophy. The sovereign socialistic constitution adopted by  Indian is also depicted in the Theatre. Broadly if the era is divided into pre–independence and post–independence , then we can say  that the play–scripts contained the prevailing social, political, educational, familial situations. Scrip writers such as G.B.Deval, Mama  VArerkar, M.G.Ranganekar, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, P.K.Atre made Theatre a medium for inging about social changes. Tritiya Ratna was  the first social and realistic play written by Mahatma Jyotiba Phule. After the independence, the subjects of play–scripts started changing. The contents of the plays were relevant to the prevailing circumstanfes. ?The audience started liking these plays. Theatre became  the medium for transforming constructive ideas into reality. Play–writers like Ratnakar Matkari, C.T.Khanolkar, Vijay Tendulkar, Jayant  Dalvi, Mohan Rakesh, Shyam Manohar, V.V.Shirwadkar, Girish Karnad, Satyadev Dubey touched the roots of the social problems and  generated enthusiasm with food for thought amongst the socially conscious people.  Keeping the social obligations, national, family interests in view the plays became one of the most acceptable forms and Theatre proved  to be the most influential medium. Theatre thus became the centre for revolutions.  Portraying the real picture, meaningful content through the script is presented very effectively by Theatre. The dialogues, body language  & expressions impressively convey the message. The extract of acting potentials is spread over the journey towards change. 

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Dr.Jayant Shevtekar Theatre–Seed Centre for Social Transformations International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 5 May 2015

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