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Performing on the Platform: Creating Theatre with India’s Platform Children
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2013 (T220)
- pp. 95-119
- Article
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Young, trained, middle-class facilitators from pandies’ theatre of Delhi enable impoverished boys — rescued from India’s railway platforms and incarcerated in NGO-run shelters or state reformatories — to create theatre based on their lives. The resulting performances — which re-perform sagas of violence, rape, drug abuse, prostitution, and death — question the very premises of social amelioration.