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Folk Theatre
Popular entertainment is an inevitable part of community life and it reflects
the tastes and traditions of the people and their social historical scientific
attitudes and imaginative qualities. The folk art forms like Swang, Jagrata,
Jagra, Ainchali singing, the ballads and songs of the tribes of wandering
minstrels are still a vital and living force in the area.
Bhagat, Kariyada, Banthada and Haranyattar are the popular
folk theatre forms of Himachal Pradesh. These dramas are usually
built around certain character-types. Any available space in the middle
of a field marked by two or three feet high poles with cords tied round
them, provides the stage for the folk-drama. Audience sits around such
a stage.
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