• Dibyendu Biswas

Stage performance is a fine art that uses live performers, typically actors, to present the experience of a real or imaginary event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word “theatre” as derived from the Ancient Greek language. Ancient Indian theatre is also known as nātya in Sanskrit, which encompasses gesture, dialogue, speech, song, music, and dance. Designing of the stage and arrangements, specially in drama is of utmost importance. Stage designing and arrangement includes the sets, painted sceneries, costumes, lighting and several other mechanisms. These all are to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The oldest contribution about Indian stage designing and arrangement comes from Nātyaśāstra which throws lights on almost all aspects of theatre architecture to artifacts to performers movements to the make-up. Most importantly, it gives a vivid idea about the stage designing and arrangement of ancient Indian theatre which is crucial for the reconstruction of the facts of the yesteryears.

Stage performance, Theatre, Stage designing, Stage arrangement, Performance Traditions, Ancient India, Nātyaśāstra

"ANCIENT INDIAN STAGE DESIGNING, ARRANGEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE TRADITIONS AS PORTRAYED IN NᾹTYAŚᾹSTRA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.83-86, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907768.pdf

"ANCIENT INDIAN STAGE DESIGNING, ARRANGEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE TRADITIONS AS PORTRAYED IN NᾹTYAŚᾹSTRA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp83-86, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907768.pdf