Public-Ising Theatre: Stimulating the Process of Reterritorialization of Theatre

Abstract

Theatre has always depended upon mobility for development, be it in terms of migration (through the process of re-territorialization') or moving theatrical bodies. Such acts in history have proved to be stimuli for exchange of ideas, hybridization and fusion. The thesis sees Islamabad as a point of departure in the investigation of theatre's development through the lens of mobility; a utilarian city where all culture has come due to the idea of movement (migration).However, it is seen that the outcomes of the re-territorialization1 process are not registered in the city (especially in informal settings). This means there lays a potential ready to be stimulated. The thesis aims to stimulate theatre development through the process of re-territorialization; creating fusion, mediation, hybridization