Where the Sun Rises When Shadows Fall: The North-East
Author: Geeti Sen (Ed.)

More than 30 essays, oral narratives, poems, interviews and photographs on India’s North-East by North-Easterners focusing on culture, identity, history, and politics. Includes a chapter-length interview with Ratan Thiyam.
ISBN: 0195682815, Oxford University Press, 2006

Chakravyuha
Author: Ratan Thiyam
with Pre-text and performance text by Kavita Nagpal

Ratan Thiyam’s Chakravyuha (1986) established him and his Chorus Repertory Theatre on the international stage and has been performed more than 100 times throughout the world. Along with the complete performance text of the play, this volume includes a close study by Kavita Nagpal of Thiyam’s theatre, its history and development, based on intensive field work and interviews.
ISBN: 817046093X, Seagull Books, 1998

Theatres of Independence
Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947
Author: Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker

A comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India that combines theater history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation; detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theater.
ISBN: 0-87745-961-4 University of Iowa Press, 2005

Theatre of Roots
by Suresh Awasthi

from The Drama Review
Ed. Richard Schechner, Winter 1989: New York.

Ratan Thiyam: an Interview
by Kavita Nagpal

from Contemporary Indian Theatre: Interviews with Playwrights and Directors
Ed. Paul Jacob, Sangeet Natak Akademi: New Delhi, 1989.

The Theatre of Ratan Thiyam
by Kavita Nagpal

from Theatre in India
National School of Drama Journal, May 2004, #9: New Delhi.

The Audience is Inside Me
by Ratan Thiyam

from Theatre in Manipur Today
Ed. Anjum Katyal, Seagull Theatre Quarterly, Issue 14/15, June/September 1997: Calcutta.

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