post-independence modern Indian theatre in the form of original scripts, director’s notes, brochures, reviews, seminar papers, theatre magazines and audio-visual material including interviews, rehearsals, and performances.

The archive engages with theatre in an expanded form and as a social document – by situating and reading theatre within the social political economic and legal, can theatre be considered a public record revealing evidence in theatre scripts, photographed bodies in performance and in set designs, journalistic records and ephemera? ATA believes that  dialogue with contemporary practices allows us to trace theatre and performance chronologies, ideologies, methods and processes as a map that is complex, networked, and hypertextual.