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Indigenous Theatre: Going with the Flow
There are hundreds of diversified traditional theatre forms that are still practiced in Bangladesh, something many urbanites do not even know the existence of. Usually, traditional theatre forms are presented in music-dance-drama form and include one or more of the following elements: dance, music and narratives or dialogue. Traditional theatre is always geared towards the masses, created and supported by them and not by the ruling class. Indigenous theatre presentations do not have the refinement of urban theatre presentations; the beauty of an indigenous theatre presentation is in its spontaneity and the art of improvisation. But can this art form survive the onslaught of influences from satellite TV and commercial cinema?
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