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‘Resistance can come only from theatre’: an interview with A. Mangai

ABSTRACT Dr. Padma Venkataraman, alias A. Mangai, is an Indian academic, activist, actor, playwright, and a director. This conversation with her draws on the interface between feminism and theatre in the Indian context. It refers to Mangai’s dramatic and critical oeuvre, primarily focusing on the prominent directorial ventures, such as Pacha Mannu (New Earth, 1996), Aanmai o Aanmai (Macho o Macho, 2010), Vakkumoolam (Testimony, 2013), along with the critical study on Indian feminist theatre, titled Acting Up: Gender and Theatre in India, 1979 onwards (2015). She candidly talks about women’s participation in a genre dominated by men, the aesthetics of the street theatre, the Dravidian movement’s gendered discourse, patriarchal indifference towards women’s works, feminist dramaturgy, and sustenance of theatre.