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Abstract

Transcultural theatrical adaptation has become an increasingly significant domain of inquiry for scholars of language and literature and also a key issue due to its collaborative creative mode as process and continuing popularity as a product. As the foremost representative of Brecht’s radical dramaturgy in Pakistan since 1983, Ajoka theatre utilized these adaptations as socio-political spaces to challenge dominant discourse on the rise of dictatorship and capitalism in Pakistan. Detailed literature review result showed that in Pakistan’s context, there is dearth of comprehensive research regarding the historical intentionality in indigenizing of Brecht’s work by Ajoka Theatre. This study outlines and examines relevant literature regarding the adaptation of Brecht’s selected work in Pakistan by Ajoka Theatre. It also asserts that Brecht’s “canonical” literary works, controversial indigenization in Pakistan, offers a striking account of valuable and interesting transcultural adaptation study because it was performed through a ‘radical’ theatre with a distinct dramaturgy and political philosophy in two different cultural contexts and also in distant historical frame of reference