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A Marathi theatrical group, Mumbai, 1870.
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Marathi theatre is theatre in the Marathi language, mostly originating or based in the state of Maharashtra in India, and elsewhere with Marathi diaspora. Starting in the middle of the 19th century, it flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, it continues to have a marked presence in the State of Maharashtra with a loyal audience base, when most theatre in other parts of India have had tough time facing the onslaught of cinema and television. Its repertoire ranges from musicals, humorous social plays, farces, historical plays like 'Vedat Marathe Veer Daudale Saat'[1] by Bashir Momin Kavathekar,[2] to experimental plays and serious drama of the 1970s onwards, by Vijay Tendulkar, P. L. Deshpande, Mahesh Elkunchwar and Satish Alekar, which have influenced theatre throughout India.[3] In the post-independence era, Bengali theatre, and Marathi theatre have been at the forefront of innovations and significant dramaturgy in Indian theatre.[4][5]
^"लोककला जिवंत ठेवणारी लेखणी विसावली", ‘दै. लोकमत- पुणे’, दि. १४-नोव्हेंबर-२०२१
^“अवलि या लोकसाहित्यीक”, "दै. सकाळ”, पुणे, 21-Nov-2021
^"Modern Marathi theatre had milestones, limitations." The Times of India. 7 June 2011. Archived from the original on 7 May 2013.
^Rubin, p. 196
^Don Rubin; Chua Soo Pong; Ravi Chaturvedi; Ramendu Majundar; Minoru Tanokura (2001). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia/Pacific. Taylor & Francis. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-415-26087-9.
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