PROTEST THROUGH STREET PLAYS IN INDIA

Performance and protest through street theatre in India being a theatre artist one should have a strong believe that theatre is a best form of social communication by all means. Every performance is always carry political, social, historical messages with contemporary values / contests. In my views I always take my performance as a challenge for communications and to express my protests against the exploitations, oppression, and imposed injustice in the society. Now a days the community of performers are experiencing the freedom of expression with annoying restrictions. The performers are not getting freedom to make their expressions against the policies in our country. The criticism of anything is being taken as adverse. The expression of the protest is being taken as antinational and antisocial by the followers of particular so-called ideologists. It is a need of an hour to contempt this attitude, the performers has to stand with strong protest through their performances like street theatre. The street theatre is not only creates a conscious against wrong beings i. e. Social evils, political differences, ideological differences but also arouses it to immediate reactions. The performing protest is having a history science colonial period in India. During the colonial period Indian theatre Performers used the theatre forms especially street theatre as a tool of protests. Following the such incidents. H. Dinbandhu Mitra execute the performance of „Nil Darpana‟ as a protest against the injustice imposed on farmers in Bengal who refused to sow indigo in their fields.