Navarasas, Autoethnodrama & DIY Immersive Theatre: An Interactive Book for Adventurous Readers

Navarasas, Autoethnodrama & DIY Immersive Theatre is composed of two interwoven texts, each in dialogue with the other.

Part One presents a distinctive autoethnodrama, dramatizing nearly two decades of Dineshs experiences as a theatre maker, researcher, and educator in conflict zones. This section offers readers an interactive and experiential way to engage with Dineshs ideas and is especially aimed at emerging practice-based researchers who are considering creating work in/about/within fraught contexts. Part Two provides analytical, visual renderings of the evolution of Dineshs thinking around the five WsWho, What, When, Where, Why. Drawing on her prior work in Kashmir and her ongoing engagements at San Quentin State Prison, this section of the book delves into the complexities of the researcher-practitioner experience in settings shaped by violence and trauma. By using navarasas, autoethnodrama, and DIY immersive theatre as her conceptual frameworks, Dineshs book serves as an interactive guide: preparing future practitioners and researchers for the profound ways in which this kind of work can leave an indelible mark on those who undertake it.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars embedded in the disciplines of Theatre & Performance Studies: performative writing, dramatic writing, performance autoethnography, or in the case of this book, autoethnodrama.