Research: Women’s Bodies at Theatre: Feminist Performances Between India and Europe
The research aims to investigate the dynamics of adaptation of plays by
feminist mold in the Indian context, and of the creation of original subversive works, whose
subject-object is women's body in all its possible representations - both dressed
or naked. The research aims to investigate the semantic scope of such works, identify their objectives and
their ability to penetrate the messages, that they carry within Indian societies
involved, and break down patriarchal prejudices, and induce new policies at the level
social. This, not only and exclusively within the geographical limits of India, but also in the
European diasporic context, more specifically the Italian and English ones.
The research wants to move in three directions: it wants to analyze the Indian feminist theater,
starting from some identified case studies; it wants to understand if there are external influences that
depend on the European diasporic communities and/or whether they know, participate, and if they are
influenced by this kind of theater; it wants to investigate the manner of dissemination and
alternative streaming representation to traditional theater, which pandemic situation of
Covid-19 has made it more common, and to analyze the meaning that the virtual body assumes in this
alternative space.