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Between the lines

Regin Rose’s Mother of 1084, to be staged this weekend, is rife with metaphors

COMIC APPEAL: A scene from the play

A candidate for the king’s post!

Diwan Singh Bajeli Using slapstick acting style and Chaplinesque technique, “Nautanki Raja” highlighted a clown’s journey to scout for an appropriate person to hold reins of the throne

Radio calling: The cast of Hello Farmaaish (below) director Yuki Ellias.

Space odyssey, Haryana style

Vikram Phukan Aadyam’s Hello Farmaaish juxtaposes the world of astronauts with rural community radio

A sense of longing

Sooraj Rajmohan Debosmita Dam, who directed a dramatised reading of Igor Bauersima’s norway.today recently, discusses the solitude experienced by a generation that grew up in a connected world

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EVOKING SUSPENSE: Atul Kumar’s set design provides enough space for action

Story of an unlikely hero

Diwan Singh Bajeli Marked by innovative set design and witty conversations, Atul Kumar’s “Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah” depicted the danger to the sovereignty of the country by an espionage network

Unravelling the angst of Karna

V. Kaladharan Actors of the Ladies’ Kathakali Troupe confidently performed Karnasapadham

CONQUEST OVER CONSCIENCE: Happy Ranajit as King Richard The Third

Tale of a megalomaniac king

Diwan Singh Bajeli Actor-director Happy Ranajit adroitly delineated the complex character of King Richard in a gripping play

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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 the lines

A candidate for the king’s post!

Space odyssey, Haryana style

A sense of longing

A play with two storylines

Rama’s eye-catching coronation

Creating tapestries of sound

Passing through Mumbai last week was Japanese composer Yasuhiro Morinaga. Arts aficionados in India would know of him through his collaborations with

Reviving the lost art of playwriting

The second edition of the Sanchita Manch fest will feature three new original plays

Ctizens review ‘Barff’: A cobweb of truths

Replete with humourThe audience of Chennai, on a sultry evening gets transported to the pristine paradise (Kashmir) where it’s chilly and snowy,

Karuppu: Inner demons, outer faith

Indianostrum’s Karuppu delves into the evil that resides within every man

Batting for Bali

Nimmy Raphel’s deep and reflective Bali re-looks at the events that lead up to the battle between the vanara king and Ram

Theatre is no longer an unlikely full-time career

There was a time when being able to “just do theatre” was an unheard-of luxury. Not any longer

Annie Zaidi wins The Hindu Playwright Award 2018

Citation praises work as ‘subtle and hard-hitting’

Story of an unlikely hero

Marked by innovative set design and witty conversations, Atul Kumar’s “Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah” depicted the danger to the sovereignty of the country by an espionage network

All about women

Indian mythology and Tagore’s characters in a contemporary setting

Sitting and standing not permitted

Choose a bed instead of a seat to experience an unusual choral performance

What makes Chandrakant Kulkarni tick

Experimental or light-hearted, Chandrakant Kulkarni’s Marathi plays draw a huge audience

Bhima’s memorable quest for a flower

An unabridged version of Kalyanasougandikam Kathakali will be staged on August 12 at Irinjalakuda

Unravelling the angst of Karna

Actors of the Ladies’ Kathakali Troupe confidently performed Karnasapadham

A mélange of narratives

Continuing a burgeoning trend in contemporary performing arts in India, a new immersive theatre experience will be staged in Mumbai every weekend in

A flight of fantasy

Shaili Sathyu’s Chidiya Udd! play for toddlers made its début in the city this week

When love comes knocking again

Relationships and the need for closure in love form the core of Swetanshu Bora’s play Guilt

‘Untitled – 1’: the luxury of privacy

Annie Zaidi says her play Untitled – 1 talks about artistic freedom, and is barely dramatic

Drama in the world of B-graders

In town for just two shows this weekend, is Item – a play that explores Hindi cinema’s underbelly

‘Pets of Anarchy’ to be staged

The play, directed by Sam George, will be performed at Ganesham, Thycaud, on August 7

Tale of a megalomaniac king

Actor-director Happy Ranajit adroitly delineated the complex character of King Richard in a gripping play

The fire is still burning

The announcement of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Ramchandra Manjhi has come as a pleasant surprise for the practitioners of folk theatre

Between myth and reality

Using Bharatnatyam, Odissi, Karagattam, and Kalaripayattu, dance- drama One Night Only tells a lesser known but fantastic tale from the Mahabharata

Stand on the Street: A plate of piping hot stories, please

Immerse yourself in the tales of four street vendors who share their life experiences flavoured with pathos, humour and jest

The ugly side of medical care

In ‘Dharmaspathri,’ medicine is business and patients are commodities

Down with jingoism

In the pulsating opening sequence itself, the remarkable Malayalam play Nona (lie) positions itself as the voice of the dispossessed. A lone man

'Detective 9-2-11': A cocktail of a play... or a 'khichdi'?

Gun shots. Damsels in distress. Evil dons. Sounds familiar? Get ready for a serving of good old gangster comedy with physical theatre, moving sets, Bollywood references and humour

‘We want the youngsters to make a career out of Kattaikuttu’

P Rajagopal and Hanne of the Kattaikuttu Gurukulam talk about their art and the struggle to keep it going

An utterly feminist world

Ismat Chughtai’s perceptive, witty stories about beautifully flawed human beings come alive in Naseeruddin Shah’s directorial venture, Aurat!Aurat!Aurat that features an all-women cast

A production of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’: Quasimodo in callipers

An inclusive school’s production made ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ come alive with an energy that ignored the challenges and made light of differences

All the world’s a stage

Members of Mumbai’s Rahi Theatre talk about performing Jhalkari, why they like performing for kids and the world of theatre

A sound experiment

Reviving the age old form of Panduan Ke Kadde, director Dinesh Yadav’s “Jogiyar Mahabharat” tells the epic in the form of a musical

Indian poetry and performance

Arz Kiya Hai will bring alive performance and poetry

There is no stopping Makrand Deshpande

The actor-writer-director has reached the 50-play milestone

Fresh blossoms, each time

Padmavati Rao shares a few thoughts on their recent production of Flowering Tree

Plays for toddlers

Experience a world of colours, shapes, and music at Ranga Shankara’s AHA! Theatre Festival for children

Converting censorship battles into stagecraft

Just over a week remains for applications to close for the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival. This year marks the 14th edition of the Bengaluru-based

Searching for the homeland

Gerish Khemani and Akshat Nigam’s play explores memory, loss, exile and roots

Unlocking the mysteries of life

From coding to mythology, from unlocking the mystery of life to exploring the dynamics of the collective and the individual, three plays over the weekend have a lot in store for theatre enthusiasts

Korean folk tale with a message

‘The Dandelion’s Story,’ presented by Modi Theatre of Korea, was an instant hit with the kids

Subverting the idea of nationalism

In one of Kraków’s many open-air spaces, the orchestral strains of Muhammad Iqbal’s 'Sare Jahan se Achha' somewhat unexpectedly filled the air one

Urdu Drama Festival: potent narratives

Urdu Drama Festival saw a melange of plays that raised contemporary issues without getting didactic

In Les Enfants du Paradis, a mime reverses the gaze by studying his audience

It feels so right in a film that is about the theatre as life, and life as a giant theatre

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