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Jayashree Murthy (left) and Minakshi Vyas

Girish Karnad’s play ‘Broken Images’ to be staged in Coimbatore

Susan Joe Philip

The play is directed by Jayashree Murthy, founder director of Sthaayi School Of Theatre Arts and performed by Minakshi Vyas

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Swatantra Theatre’s ongoing four-day online live children’s theatre festival till January 10

Neeraja Murthy Swatantra Theatre’s ongoing four-day online live children’s theatre festival tells stories of the famous funnyman in Urdu literature

Shreyas Talpade

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Shreyas Talpade set to unveil Nine Rāsā in January 2021

Neeraja Murthy Shreyas Talpade hopes his new digital theatre initiative will create new opportunities for artistes and technicians

A still from the film

Mike Muthu on adapting ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’

Srivatsan S Theatre director Mike Muthu on adapting the short story for a film format, and why he feels virtual plays defeat the purpose of theatre

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Blending Bundelkhandi art forms: A scene from “Saadhu Aur Sundari”

Celebration of theatre

Diwan Singh Bajeli At the five-day Bikaner Theatre Festival, varied themes and styles entertained the audience

Evoking nostalgia: Danish Iqbal

Know your Ghalib from Danish Iqbal

S. RAVI Danish Iqbal’s “Dastan-e-Ghalib” combines prose and poetry to highlight the multifaceted personality of the people’s poet

Familiar concerns: A scene from the engrossing play

K.S. Rajendran’s ‘Ghosts’ explores human relations

Diwan Singh Bajeli Directed by K.S. Rajendran, “Ghosts” explores the moral dilemmas of a dysfunctional family

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The Big Fat Company (BFC) was founded in Bangalore by Anuradha H.R. in 2017

Watch | The Big Fat Company shows us theatre comes in all shapes and sizes

Girish Raghunath Karnad, veteran playwright, actor, filmmaker, and theatre personality, passed away on June 10, 2019.

Girish Karnad: life in pictures

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Reactions to Girish Karnad’s death | Film and theatre personalities pay tribute

Naseeruddin Shah pays tribute to Girish Karnad

A soul-searching experience

Girish Karnad: life in pictures

Veteran Tamil playwright and actor ‘Crazy’ Mohan dies at 67

Girish Karnad at the Bangalore Literature Festival in Bengaluru in 2018

Girish Karnad: Any play of any period has to become relevant and contemporary

Reactions to Girish Karnad’s death | Political, cultural leaders pay tribute

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will be “remembered for his versatile acting across all mediums”.

Noted playwright, actor and Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad dies at 81

He succumbed to multiple-organ failure at his residence in Bengaluru.

Where is the female gaze in Indian theatre?

One easy afternoon perusing the shelves at Prithvi Theatre’s snug and compact bookshop — Paperback Prithvi Bookshop — I was struck by how few titles

It’s ‘The Show For Everyone’

Imbroglio Productions will stage the production at Alliance Francaise on June 8

Taming of a ‘terror’ father

‘Appa Version 2.0’ is take on changing milieu

Geetanjali Kulkarni’s journey to the stage

Geetanjali Kulkarni on how NSD and Marathi theatre prepared her for acting

Fairy tales with a proverbial sting

A new Hindi play uses well-known stories to talk to children about the importance of good touch, bad touch, says Vikram Phukan

This Odia theatre group cycles from village to village for stories

Members of theatre group Natya Chetana travel to villages, teasing out stories from the everyday lives of the people they meet

Getting rights: If the writer is alive, reach out

When you play a recorded track or perform an existing song, when you use a script or design element, obtain the rights

Scenes from Alice in Wonderland

An unusual event combines food, music, photography and drama all of which recall the spirit of the Lewis Carrol classic

Get ready for Stephen Sondheim’s Company in Chennai

City-based theatre group, The Kuku Company, is back in business with a Stephen Sondheim musical comedy

Vijaydan Detha’s stories of feminine agency

Two of the Rajasthani writer’s stories will be enacted through readings at the Rang Roop Theatre Festival this evening

No more a suzy homemaker

The play shows how women can successfully convert a jibe into a challenge

A tale of anguish and suffering

Sameep Singh’s adaptation of “Meeta Ki Kahani” gives a deep dramatic insight into the emotional and psychological world of the protagonist

An illuminated gaze captured

Perhaps, one of the fallouts of the digital age is that images — accessible, easily reproducible and viscerally charged — speak louder than words, and

Humour unleashed

Russell Peters says his stand-up acts are an extension of himself

The fragile masculinity of Music Teacher

On first impression, Sarthak Dasgupta’s Music Teacher emerges as a tender tale about waiting. Or its more romantic cousin: longing. A middle-aged,

When fiction becomes fact

Actors in theatre frequently allow us to tiptoe alongside their characters, breathing in and out with their rhythms. They let us discover shared

To the moon and back with Masquerade

Masquerade brings kid-friendly theatre to the stage with Total Moonsense this weekend

More than just one act

Speech and drama courses from the Trinity College London come to Coimbatore

Master of dark laughter

A play based on the work of Daniil Kharms, who belonged to the Soviet era, will be staged

Loud and clear!

Lively and humorous, Dinesh Ahlawat’s “Do Thug” explores the exploits of two conmen

Archiving for future

Sanchi Foundation has been trying to preserve for posterity major literary and cultural landmarks

Thushara Nambiar’s solo ‘Kara’ is a powerful feminist statement against shaming and exploitation of women

Written and directed by Prashanth Narayanan, it tells the story of Nangeli, a washer woman, and her frenzied attempts to erase the stains on her body and reputation

Quirky, nonsensical and fun

Two new plays from Gillo Theatre Repertory hit the sweet spot for their intended audience, says Vikram Phukan

Super Kannada comedy

Move over English and Hindi stand-up acts, Kannada comedy groups are gaining traction on social media and among audiences

Life on a string

Kolkata-based Tal-Betal puppet theatre comes to Chennai for the first time this weekend

A trip down memory lane of Kannada theatre

Thursday was a trip down memory lane for over 50 persons who were part of Kannada theatre in the ’70s, often called the ‘golden era’ of theatre. The

Nuance, insight and respecting copyright

Recent months have seen theatrewallahs engage in much collective (and public) soul-searching over questions of intellectual property, whether it be

Comedy in heaven!

“Mareez-e-Ishq” is a light-hearted drama that captures a confrontation between the Almighty and mortals

For Rupesh Tillu clowning is a serious business

The actor-director says let the world laugh with you

Stories in sandalwood

Three-time National Award-winning puppeteer Dattatreya Aralikatte, on the evolution of the mudrika style and his journey with the art form

Behind the DRAMA

Asha Devi uses drama therapy to inform, convey and change

An intrepid exhibition of Hindi theatre

An ongoing fetival, organised by The Crafters, features an impressive 22 performances of 11 plays

Shattering frameworks of beauty

Writer-director, Mahesh Ruprao Ghodeswar’sHero Alompays homage to mainstream cinema even while its protagonist is an Internet sensation, says Vikram Phukan

Emotionally stirring experience

Noushad Mohamed Kunju’s “Mother Courage” conveyed the anti-war thesis of Bertolt Brecht in an explicit manner

Clash of the titans

Mera Dushman Manto explores Saadat Hasan Manto’s personality through the perspective of Upendranath Ashk

When Beckett met Valmiki

Playing at the ongoing Damu Kenkre Smriti Mahotsav tonight, is a fairly new production directed by the up-and-coming Abhinav Grover that bills itself

How Tholpavakoothu has taken over contemporary spaces

Tholpavakoothu, a centuries-old shadow puppetry tradition inherent to Kerala, has been feeling the winds of change

Why plays do what they do

Theatre has no evocative background score or moist-eyed close-ups to help. But can it move you? You bet

Demystifying the religious fountainhead

Marathi play, Avyahat has cinematic sweep and a multi-layered narrative, says Vikram Phukan

The IT story

Dancing on Glass, directed by Lakshyraj Rathod, is a dark comedy situated during Bengaluru’s technological boom

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