Bunker Talk #173: Sukanya Chakrabarti

This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do.
About this Event

Sukanya Chakrabarti is a scholar, playwright, director, deviser, dramaturg, and performer whose work spans the Bay Area, New York, and Kolkata. She served as the Cultural Dramaturg for Public Obscenities (Pulitzer Prize finalist), written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury. She directed Kingdom of Cards by Rabindranath Tagore, which she also translated and co-adapted with Matthew Spangler. Currently, she is the Editor of Theatre Topics. Chakrabarti is the author of In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism, which examines the performance of Bauls—folk performers from Bengal—against the backdrop of rising nationalist discourses. Her scholarship has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Theatre Topics, Indian Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Urban Geography, Ecumenica: Performance and Religion, and Emergency Index. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University and is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at San José State University. More information about her work is available at www.sukanyac.com.

This talk is presented in association with the School of English as part of GoGlobal Week at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Bunker Talks

This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art and the School of English, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue as part of a civic conversation.

Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 170 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/