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    The Indian Theatre
    The Indian Theatre
    The Indian Theatre
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    The Indian Theatre

    By Mulk Raj Anand

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 8, 2016
    ISBN9781473357419
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      The Indian Theatre - Mulk Raj Anand

      THE POPULAR THEATRE

      A SAFETY CURTAIN, with birds and flowers and buxom Victorian wenches around a fountain, painted in crude commercial colours, bars you from the mystery as you sit in the auditorium. The play begins at about half past ten or eleven, just when you have dozed off after a futile attempt at catching the eye of the lady who sits in the box. For who else but a harlot would think of coming to the theatre at midnight, unattended! Certainly she is much more amenable to the whistles, the shrill shouts and the catcalls of the more experienced roués than to the surreptitious glances of the respectable little man furtively winking to attract her. So you have nothing to do but to chew betel leaf or sleep. Suddenly, there is a rustling and you see through your half open eyes that the safety curtain is going up and also the red plush tabs are parting, followed by the shooting of a gun which somehow miraculously tears a further curtain into two. And there is the clown trying to stand on his head. A thudding fall of his spotted behind and you awaken rubbing your eyes. Your patience with the antics of the clown is rewarded when at last the hero appears singing. He may be representing Sur Das or Hamlet, but he enters singing, dolefully thumping his heart and rolling his eyes as though he were convulsed with the ache of a million broken romances. Gesticulating violently with extended arms, he ultimately reaches a sham balcony and has a vision of the heroine, who opens her arms to receive but not to give; for, instead of coming forward to embrace the hero, she bursts into a dithyrambic song of her own. And thus the play proceeds, slowly, surely, not leaving anything to chance and taking you through the paces, as curtain after curtain opens to the shooting of a gun, by way of comedy, tragedy, farce, heroic drama, morality play, and all just in order to ensure that your education is complete by the time you go home at five o’clock in the morning.

      This is by no means an exaggerated account of a performance in one of our rare city theatres, especially if one has the classical repertory of the surviving professional companies in mind. Nothing is too fantastic on this stage. I have been seriously told by a distinguished man of the theatre that during one play a cow was supposed to perform a miracle. She was supposed to enter from one wing of the stage, chew up the rope with which the heroine’s hands had been tied by the villain of the piece

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