SILENCE AS THE RHETORIC OF RESISTANCE IN HEISNAM KANHAILAL’S THEATRE PRACTICE

The theatre practice of Heisnam Kanhailal and his cocreator performance, Sabitri is less words, speeches dialogues than found in conventional proscenium theatre. Both believe that has a language its own not necessarily verbal communication. In their theatre, action expressed more through body movements, physical gestures sounds spoken words as they non-verbal silent communication theatrical or feeling powerful the ones. This unusual mode narrative helped to form rhetoric resistance against various forms socio-political injustice Manipur historically gone through. articulation plays occurs happens silence, gestures, communications. He was creating what contemporary Pinter England, much at same time, line, with motif although difference context artistic execution.