Abstract

Indian theatre is at least 5000 years old and is inseparable part of Indian culture. Indian theater in course of its long journey has influenced the rest of the world's theater and in turn also has imbibed few features of the rest of world's theater. The western influence is more on urban theater than the rural theater. The reason for it is undoubtedly an economic one. The paper attempts to identify the difference and common features between urban theatre and rural theatre as well as assess and analyze the economics of urban theatre and rural theatre. In order to know the economics of urban and rural theatre, the primary data was collected from 20 amateur theatre performers from three districts of Karnataka namely Bangalore, Kolar and Chitradurga.

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