In an age where academic curriculum has essentially pushed theatre studies into post-script, and the cultural space of making and watching theatre has been largely usurped by the immense popularity of television and mainstream cinemas, it is important to understand why theatre still remains a space to be reckoned as ones own. This book argues for a theatre of their own of the Indian women playwrights (and directors), and explores the possibilities that modern Indian theatre can provide as an instrument of subjective as well as social/ political/ cultural articulations and at the same time analyses the course of Indian theatre which gradually underwent broadening of thematic and dramaturgic scope in order to accommodate the independent voices of the women playwrights and directors.