![]() ![]() ![]() It shall try to understand the importance of the stage as a modern influence in a societal circumstance that is perhaps not in the same temporal plane, and how that defines the artist and the art of the theatre itself. Following that, it will try to compare the effect of the proscenium on social standing and how it fared in perpetuity in comparison to other, supposedly more indigenous, forms of art. This paper will try to chronicle the history of 19 th century proscenium plays in erstwhile Kolkata and the surroundings, up until, and a little beyond, the establishment and initial success of the Public stage in 1872. It wasn't a natural, or gradual, evolution of the public form of entertainment that had existed in proximity, which one might consider cultural proximity in a more informal situation, but an adaptation of sorts, that wasn't completely, if at all, intrinsic to the region before the imposition of Modernity through colonial rule. ![]() Theatre in Kolkata was a sudden occurrence. ![]()
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