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“They represent an
absolute extreme of purity: a peasant company directed by a highly
sophisticated man who brings them up to town taken every conceivable
to prevent the town from contaminating them. They go back to their
villages tat harvest tine. They speak their local hindi patois …
it’s pop art, using the vocabulary of natural fun, and on that sense
the naya shows could be from anywhere. But there’s something about
this part of India that makes then very talented. They’re born
actors. What they produce together is an enormous variety of stories
that they tell completely on their own terms: not only village
fables, but bits of Brecht and ‘The Bourgeois Gentihomme’ with no
apparent difference. From folk tales to Moliere it’s all one
seamless movement deriving from their experience of life. There’s no
halfway house between the local root and the foreign style.”
PETER BROOK in THE LONDON TIMES |
