Weekend theatre
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Akvarious Productions from Mumbai brings a series of plays
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The Akvarious Festival begins on October 8 at Ranga Shankara. The four-day festival will feature six plays that will be staged by Akvarious Productions, Mumbai.
On October 8 the English play “Proof” will be staged. The play, directed by Kashin Shetty, it explores the unfathomable nature of love as much as it does the mysteries of science. Set in USA, it deals with two sisters coping with the death of their once-brilliant mathematician father. The play will be staged at 7.30 p.m.
On October 9 is “Jake’s Woman” at 7.30 p.m. The play directed by Mrunmayee Lagoo is about Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life.
The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females.
“Afsaneh: Bai Se Biscope Tak”, a dance drama about the nautanki and baithak cultures, the women who shaped them, and how eventually cinema replaced them will be staged on October 10 at 11 a.m.
The play filled with live songs and dances in folk and classical styles, is directed by Akarsh Khurana.
At 11 a.m. on October 11 the English play “The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat” based on “The Five Find Outers and Dog Series” by Enid Blyton Will be staged.
The Enid Blyton Mystery Series, is a series of children’s mystery books. Set in a fictitious village, the children encounter a mystery almost every school holiday, always solving the puzzle before Mr. Goon, the unpleasant village policeman, much to his annoyance.
“All About Women” will be staged on the same day at 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. This English play is directed by Akarsh Khurana.
The play has five different yet connected stories.
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