Theatre
Fine acts of classicism
Carefully chosen plays and excellent actors made the annual Nishagandhi Kathakali mela a memorable one.
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In translation, lost and found
Works of Neil Simon and Edward Albee get a new interpretation, albeit with mixed results, at a recent festival of American plays.
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February 16, 2012
Spotlight on Sanskrit, literature
Dr. V. Raghavan Centre for Performing Arts celebrated its 28 remembrance day at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan recently. On the following day, Samskrita Ranga, founded by Dr. V. Raghavan, celebrated i...
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February 15, 2012
Table for Two: A lot on the plate!
Ravi Dubey walks into Mobius, the European restaurant at Hotel Samrat in New Delhi, a bit behind the prearranged time. Understandable considering META (Mahindra Excellence for Theatre Awards) is s...
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February 12, 2012
Bridge anyone?
From the outside it looks like perfect picture of a rich life, but since when has any life been perfect? Zoom in and you'll see an empty, mundane life that doesn't go beyond wine and cheese. Darkl...
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February 11, 2012
A fool rushes in
The energetic, self-willed clowns of “C for Clown” and “Hamlet the Clown Prince” directed by Rajat Kapoor are back in “Nothing Like Lear”, produced by Rajat Kapoor's Cinematograph and the Company T...
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February 10, 2012
Made to move
“It's about every young person who steps out of his childhood to become an adult,” says Matthias Kutcha who along with Stephan V. Lowis was in town recently to present Dadi Pudumjee's play, San...
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February 9, 2012
What were you asked?
Jagriti Theatre is set to stage the award-winning play, “The Interview”, this month. “The Interview” is directed by Akarsh Khurana the prolific producer and director who has won two Best Director a...
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February 8, 2012
It's different!
The theatre scene in Chennai is like old wine. It has taken its time to taste better. However, of late, it seems to be extending its horizons. The recent three-day theatre fest, “MY Theatre Festiv...
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February 6, 2012
The bicycle sutra
On October 27, 2011, 23-year-old Akram Feroze set off on a journey. He had a bicycle, a bag containing two sets of clothes and a laptop, and Rs. 300. Akram wanted to just travel around the country...
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February 3, 2012
Scent of the stage
The titles of Abhishek Majumdar's plays don't tell us much. Instead, they beguile. Sample this – “An Arrangement of Shoes”, “Afterlife of Birds”, even “Harlesden High Street.” If these titles give...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
February 2, 2012
Take two: theatre
Revathy does not believe in resting on her laurels. For years now, the award-winning film actor and director has been reinventing herself and her repertoire by constantly challenging her creativity...
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Gripping melange of history and bhakti
Reviving a dying art form
Revisiting a Tagore classic
Showcase: A smorgasbord of plays
A change in the scene
Portrait of genius
Yamdhoot comes knocking
Office in reverse
Art grand and eloquent
February 16, 2012
String of accolades
Some of the titles conferred on him
Iyakkunar Sigaram (conferred by Kachaleeswara Gana Sabha), Nataka Ratna (Kala Mandir of Coimbatore), Kala Seva Sironmani (Balaji Fine Arts, Chen...
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February 13, 2012
Limelight days
It was evident that the medium of theatre can generate powerful feelings as was seen in “Nizam Telisindi,” (we realised the truth), a children's play, performed at the “Nandi Natakotsavam-2011” in...
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February 12, 2012
A chatty evening
Even the various perfumes applied by the who's who in the city could not stop the waft of the stench which rose from the lake by the lawns of the Taj Banjara. But the crowd was not miffed or distr...
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February 10, 2012
When silence speaks
“The Water Station” is an experience in silence. And silence is integral to imbibing the spirit of the play. When Sankar Venkateswaran brought Ota Shogo's play to the city as part of the Internatio...
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February 9, 2012
Stories from the soul
“Courage is simple.” But “it is not a poem with rhyming lines,” says Niromi to Ajanthi. Courage and cowardice, success and failure, freedom and entrapment, these seemingly definitive concepts swell...
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February 8, 2012
Variety fare
Luckily for me, there are worse things to see than the Collaborated Theatre show that opens this year's multipart festival. It is exactly what its name suggests, consisting of a two-hour stretch o...
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February 7, 2012
Staging Shakespeare
Five centuries later and his influence continues to bear its imprint on stages across the globe — in a world of uncertainties, one thing you can be sure of is we're not going to stop performing, wa...
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February 3, 2012
Modern-day Minstrel
Life has taken Chandran Veyyatummal, the diminutive, soft-spoken theatre musician and award-winning music composer on a lyrical journey from his native Narikkuni, near Baluserry in Kozhikode distr...
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February 3, 2012
Playing on
Numbers narrate the success of Akvarious Productions. The Mumbai-based theatre company performed around 150 shows of their various plays last year. And when Akarsh Khurana, proprietor of...
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February 2, 2012
Touchstone of artistic expression
Drisyavedi, a non-governmental cultural organisation of 40 years standing in Thiruvananthapuram, celebrated its 24th annual ‘Naatyolsavam', with five evenings devoted to top class staging of select...
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