Excess, Humour, and Subversion in Santosh Pawar’s Yada Kadachit (If At All)

Dr. Madhuri Dixit is an Associate Professor in Pemraj Sarda College, Ahmednagar. She received her PhD in Cultural and Media Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her doctoral study is on representation of women in Marathi theatre. She has published articles on varied aspects of Marathi theatre among which feature the following two: ‘Speaking to the Male World: Caste and Performance of Women Playwrights’ (in Samyukta, XVI No 2, July 2016, pp. 34-56) and ‘Begum Barve: Embodiment of subversive Fantasy' in Studies in South Asian Film and Media (5.1, 2013, pp. 25-36). She has presented twice in the International Theatre Federation Research conferences (2014, 2016), and in the Performance Studies International conference in 2017. She also writes cultural criticism in the Marathi language print media. Her academic interests is gender and caste discourse. Presently she is working on the idea of theatre archive as specific to Indian theatres.