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Survival of the fittest A scene from the play; director Sohaila Kapur

Sohaila Kapur’s 'Albeli Naar': A touch of irony

Diwan Singh Bajeli

Sohaila Kapur’s “Albeli Naar”, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's “The Taming of the Shrew”, highlights inhuman aspects of the patriarchy

Musical reality: (Top) stills from #SingIndiaSing and (below) a rehearsal at a studio in Bhandup.

From idea to page to stage

Peter Griffin The creators of #SingIndiaSing talk about what it takes to make a musical from the ground up

Atul Satya Koushik: ‘NSD exists within four walls’

There’s a lot that ails the Delhi theatre scene, says Atul Satya Koushik

Theatre for a child's growth

Gowri S From building self-confidence, to teaching vocabulary and socio-emotional skills, theatre goes a long way in a child’s growth, say theatre experts

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Kottakkal Devadas in Bakavadham

Epic characterisations

V R PRABODHACHANDRAN NAYAR The first segment of Natyolsavam, a Kathakali fete in Thiruvananthapuram, featured four magnificent recitals of plays by Kottayathu Thampuram

Engrossing narrative: A scene from the play

A window to complex man-woman relationships

Diwan Singh Bajeli Rajinder Nath’s Hindi adaptation of Vijay Tendulkar’s controversial play, “Sakharam Binder”, captures the spirit of the original with compelling performances

Margi Usha in Sitaparinayam

When Rama takes a bow

VR PRABODHACHANDRAN NAYAR Margi Usha stuck to the attaprakaram, while reinterpreting Sitaparinayam

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Shri Bavaani Amman Therukkoothu Nataka Manram, Kanchipuram, presented ‘Alamugasooran Samhaaram’, an unusual story of Arjuna being helped by Draupadi, who takes on the Kali avatara to kill the asura.

A rivetting ‘therukoothu’ performance

Portrait of an artist: All dressed and ready to emote, the lead character of the Kateel Mela Yakshagan troupe is set for an all-night performance at Bajpe, near Mangaluru.

The night the Yakshas danced

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Between clouds and comedy

Sohaila Kapur’s 'Albeli Naar': A touch of irony

From idea to page to stage

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Atul Satya Koushik: ‘NSD exists within four walls’

Theatre for a child's growth

Epic characterisations

Strangers on a train

New drama group, Red Earth Stories debuts this evening with an intriguing two-hander play written by Yasmin Reza

Trolls, eagles and a ring in a dark cave

Goblin masks in tow, the young cast of A to Zee Creativity’s stage adaptation of ‘The Hobbit’ clearly had a blast

For all the dreamers

Amruta Mapuskar’s one person show traipses around surreal landscapes to explore the ‘dream self’

A flight of imagination

A drama with a touch of satire and magic realism, “Hello Farmaaish” oscillates between hope and reality

Gandhi is a rockstar for me: M.K. Raina

M.K. Raina on making Bapu relevant for today’s generation, providing healing touch to Kashmiris through community theatre, and his stint in Hindi cinema

Briefly, Beckett

The Shakti Ensemble puts together a compelling compendium of short works by the avant garde playwright

In the eternal company of his private Gods

M.A. Hegde is a Sanskrit scholar who is equally engaged with language and philosophy. He is a Yakshagana artiste as well as a Talamaddale performer. He is a writer and translator. Chairman of Yakshagana Academy, M.A. Hegde, moves between several worlds with the demeanour of a devout student

‘A1Vedhalam’ kept the audience riveted

An engineer’s invention leads to unforeseen consequences

Theatre fest in Konkani heartland

The four-day event heralds the revival of the genre

Across the hinterland with Gillo Repertory

For Shaili Sathyu, artistic director of the Gillo Repertory, it was a long-term dream to travel with her theatre company on a road trip to the

Death of Bali

A compelling recital of Balivadham Koodiyattam in Irinjalakuda brought on stage some powerful scenes and brilliant actors

The plight of a King

A Koodiyattam recital of episodes from Thoranayudham portrayed a pensive Ravana in a state of confusion

Star-crossed and quirky: The HandleBards in town

The HandleBards, an all-women troupe that travels around in bicycles, presented a humorous adaptation of the iconic Romeo and Juliet

Bilbo and the dwarves come to Chennai

Tolkien’s The Hobbit is all set to be staged in the city, with a cast mainly comprising of children

Soorya’s Theatre Fest starts on October 11

The multilingual fête to feature a host of plays, starting with Malayalam play Deerkha Chaturam directed by Soorya Krishnamoorthy

Who doesn’t love the jester?

With their latest workshop, John Pradeep and his group reiterate that clowning is a serious art form

Saving Juliet with The Handlebards

Four hundred years after it was first performed, Romeo and Juliet gets an irreverent makeover by a group of cycling actors from the UK

A window to complex man-woman relationships

Rajinder Nath’s Hindi adaptation of Vijay Tendulkar’s controversial play, “Sakharam Binder”, captures the spirit of the original with compelling performances

When Rama takes a bow

Margi Usha stuck to the attaprakaram, while reinterpreting Sitaparinayam

Through an anthropological gaze

Anuja Ghosalkar’s Reading Room draws together strangers in sharing their personal histories through all kinds of missives

The wonder that is Kodaikanal

Rich biodiversity and indigenous population make it a unique hill station

Why Devdas fascinates Saif Hyder Hasan?

Writer-director Saif Hyder Hasan talks about being attracted to brooding, intense love stories

Deva Leela: Momentum not sustained

The occasional humorous flashes were the only highlight in the play

A play of expressions

An abridged version of Kottayathu Thampuran’s Kalyanasougandhikam was staged recently

Opening up Pandora’s box

Akshay Anand Kohli directs actor Surabhi Vanzara in a one-person act that explores a homemaker’s supposedly carefree world

Five thousand and counting

Now well into its fourth decade, the rip-roaring Malwani comedy, Vastraharan rolls on. The juggernaut from Bhadrakali Productions, which completed a

Remembering Kaifi and Shaukat

Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar cast a spell on the audience with their presentation ‘Kaifi aur Main’

Life in death

‘Lash’t Wish’ by Kash Theatres delivers socially relevant issues with wit and humour

Knowing the environment, through a ‘modern fairy tale’

‘Josephine and the Brothers of the Wind’, a children’s play by German theatre group Die Mimosen, revolves around climate change

A timely siren: Yatrik’s “9:45 Ki Express Ki Seeti”

Penned by Avijit Dutt, Yatrik’s “9:45 Ki Express Ki Seeti” is a moving tale that deals with child sexual abuse

Evolving with time: down the memory lane with Evam's founders

As city-based theatre group Evam turns 15, the founders look back in wonder

Creative strokes on a historical canvas: on Girish Karnad's new play 'Rakshasa Tangadi'

Girish Karnad’s new play Rakshasa Tangadi puts the spotlight on Vijayanagar empire. More than his earlier historical plays, this one charters the course of history closely

Whistle off your anger !

Like the pressure cooker. And ‘Kochikadhema’ has more — all in good humour

Saying it with ART

Poet Prathibha Nandakumar reflects on the artistic life of the renowned S.G. Vasudev through a performance, Kalpavrukshada Swagata

Cooking up a storm onstage

Appealing to the olfactory and by extension, the gustatory, are notions that theatre-makers have more than toyed with over the years, with varying

And snap! went the sneak: The Madras Players' new murder comedy

The Madras Players are back, with what can only be described as a murder comedy

Chinese drag queens get to ‘be themselves’

Musical Kinky Boots has broken new ground in the socially conservative nation, with shows in theatres across cities

Looking beyond the female gaze

Gurleen Judge combines her experience as a light-designer and theatre-maker in an interpretation of Franz Kafka’s ‘The Hunger Artist’

A heart-wrenching saga

Fourthwall Production unsettles the calm in the audience with its poignant portrayal of epic tragedy The Duchess of Malfi

Assam’s fascinating theatrical traditions

“Being offended is now the national past time”

Gender, motherhood and mothers-in-law... everything is fair game for stand-up artiste Anu Menon aka Lola Kutty

When you see stars on the stage

Theatre is dangerous, particularly if you’re being roughed up by a method actor

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