Sitting in Badal's Circle: artist and pedagogue; the theatre of Badal Sircar

ABSTRACT The work of Indian theatre practitioner Badal Sircar represents a socially committed model of physically based theatre which has significance for drama educators. His work in Third Theatre bears many relations to existing Educational Drama practice, yet there is still more to be learned from his example. In the context of the separation which exists in British culture between educational and professional arts, Sircar proposes an important alternative model for the artist in education in which educational and professional concerns connect.