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Stand-up comedian Suhas Navaratna says humour is different in one’s mother tongue

Kannada humour: Suhas Navaratna from the Kannada stand up collective, Gandhi Class, says humour is different in one’s mother tongue

The script is devised based on what the actors bring to the table

In The Little Theatre’s 25th pantomime, a Hawaiian Popaii is out to save the world

Gowri S Twenty five years on, The Little Theatre’s annual pantomimes, can be considered as one of Chennai’s christmas traditions

Different fare Sabrina Arusam’s puppets; Stills from the play Elephant in the Room and Catch That Crocodile

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The Hyderabad Children’s Theatre Festival packs a wholesome theatre treat

Neeraja Murthy The 10th edition of the Hyderabad Children’s Theatre Festival starts off with gusto

The Ramayana meets Opera in Crea-Shakthi’s latest production

Gowri S Animal characters are protagonists in Crea-Shakthi’s latest take on The Ramayana

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Conveying his struggle: A scene from Sir Iqbal

Of Habba Khatoon and Sir Iqbal

Diwan Singh Bajeli The Urdu Drama Festival-2019 saw some memorable plays that will go a long way in enriching the composite culture of Delhi

Single minded devotion: A scene from the play “Meera”

Dancing with the deity

Diwan Singh Bajeli Sohaila Kapur’s “Meera” and “Sohbat” took the audience on a lyrical spiritual journey

Is there a future for co-existence?

ARUNDHATI GHOSH Rihla, directed by Neel Chaudhuri, deliberates our immediate insecurities and imagine what hope itself could look like

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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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Padua Theatre Hub to bring 12 plays on weekends starting October 5

This fairy-tale adaptation is a multi-sensory experience

Komal Theatres does a perfect dramatisation of Sujatha’s stories

Purisai festival brings folk arts and children’s theatre to the fore

‘It is a different take on Mahabharat’: Puneet Issar on directing the epic on stage

Extricating Shakespeare from colonial contexts

Carry on, Varghese master

E T Varghese literally takes theatre to the people with his outfit Rangachethana

.h.g., adapted from Hansel and Gretel is a well-executed theatre installation

The piece takes one on an individual journey through nine interactive rooms

Girish Karnad’s last play to be unveiled this week

Playwright’s nuanced take on fall of the Vijayanagar empire

Drama and real life

Besides teaching Tamil, L Ramraj enjoys using theatre to introduce his students to literature, social issues and more

Bringing Roald Dahl on stage

Shaan Katari Libby’s A to Zee Creativity is all set to showcase adaptations of ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ and ‘James and the Giant Peach’ next week

Tughlaq for dystopian times

Abhinav Grover’s new production of Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq is a contemporary parable, says Vikram Phukan

Grappling with the inconvenient truth

Seasoned theatre directors tell us how they are presenting Mahatma Gandhi to the millennials

Humour, the ‘Crazy’ way

With Crazy Mohan’s one liners and comedy kept intact, Kathadi Ramamurthy’s ‘Honeymoon couple,’ is a complete entertainer.

Sujatha’s short stories on stage

Komal Theatres has chosen five short stories from the celebrated writer’s collection.

How the Tamils celebrated the Mahatma

An endless list of artistes — music, stage and cinema — adored him

Reflections of society

A performance of Adayalam turned into a community event, with members of the locality pitching in to help stage the play

Curtain call for Thiruvananthapuram-based Rangaprabhath

Rangaprabhath Children’s Theatre proves it is no child’s play as the renowned theatre group moves centre stage to celebrate its golden jubilee from October 1

Whose nationalism is it anyway?

Light designer, Asmit Pathare turns playwright and director inspired by Nivedita Menon’s lecture that dismantles several political beliefs says Vikram Phukan

Love of theatre, lure of TV

Is talent giving theatre the respect it deserves?

Diversity in drama

For BAMER watchers in the UK, a good place to start could be The Stage Debut Awards, a three-year-old initiative whose nominees have included a

Seeing Premchand through Shivrani’s words

Playwright Yashwant Shekawat’s work, based on the writer’s biography authored by his wife will be read this weekend

Theatre is a great medium of change, says Sushama Deshpande

Sushama Deshpande, well-known for her play on Savitribai Phule, on how she uses the stage for social reform

Abhinaya steals the show at Kalakshetra Kathakali Festival

Through sensitive expressions and movements, the artistes conveyed the mood

Conjoined by guilt

In “Tara”, Sohaila Kapur and Divya Arora delve into the devious forms that patriarchy can take in our society

A whiff of colonial India in 'Tagore’s Post Office'

Amateur artistes attempt to interpret Tagore’s deceptively simple idea that is essentially a debate between life and death.

Of primal instincts

A recent play that gets its blurb just about right is Man Maana Square, which dubs itself “a bittersweet exploration of our primal instincts [by] four

When drama takes centre stage

N Jambunathan’s translated and original plays for the Tiruchi Nataka Sangam give theatre its due

Nemi Chandra Jain: A man of many parts

“Sakshatkar Adhura Hai” captured the life and times of Nemi Chandra Jain with some fine acting and visual imagery

I find my own self by performing different characters: Teekam Joshi

Teekam Joshi, the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for acting this year, reflects on the aesthetics of acting and the changing face of theatre

For an equal footing in art forms

Equal, the biennial festival of Rangashankara consolidates ideas for a just world from diverse voices and art forms

'Tiruvadi Saranam' review: Good dialogue, but weak plot

Many unconvincing moments hampered the flow of story in ‘Tiruvadi Saranam’

Kathadi’s ‘Honeymoon couple’ is back

Kathadi Ramamurthi is reviving the rollicking play in memory of Crazy Mohan

Chennai college to stage Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala

Vijay Tendulkar’s play about journalism, the flesh trade, and human dignity is being brought back to life by students of Women’s Christian College

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

When Bangalore-based Anuradha H.R. realised plus-sized women don’t get enough lead roles in theatre, she founded the Big Fat Company (BFC) in

Kiran Nagarkar: the playwright provocateur

One of the many hats worn by the late Kiran Nagarkar was that of playwright cum provocateur, and his output for the stage, while not prolific, was not

Becoming Devika Rani

Lillette Dubey directs her daughter in a new play based on the life of the Bombay Talkies doyenne

SVS shared a unique rapport with Cho

Sankaran, Cho’s able theatre ally for decades, passed away recently

How does commercial theatre fare in Delhi?

As “Ovee” comes to town, let’s look at the business and art of commercial theatre in Delhi

Mime artiste Elena Serra conveys emotions without words

Artiste and teacher Elena Serra shares the joy of conveying emotions without words

The Big Fat Company: Plus-sized theatre power

They are feisty, they are talented, they are plus-sized... they are The Big Fat Company

Director Quasar Thakore Padamsee’s team will stage ‘A Peasant of El Salvador’ in Hyderabad

The director feels the play is relevant to the Indian scenario as well

‘The play was a challenge to adapt’

Matthew Spangler’s adaption of The Kite Runner comes to the Mumbai stage, directed by Akarsh Khurana

'Agin Tiriya' raises contemporary issues

Convoluted but relevant, “Agin Tiriya” raises contemporary issues

Mega musical on Kurukshetra to be staged in Bengaluru

Prabhat Arts International will stage its new mega musical on Kurukshetra

A peek into the world of Seema Pahwa

The popular ‘Hum Log’ actor talks about her journey in theatre and films

‘Pattambi’ had enough turns to keep the audience engrossed

Vignesh Ratnam’s play, ‘Pattambi,’ written by Ratnam Koothapiran, is certainly of a different kind. With a simple premise, but an unexpected ending,

Pitha Uktha: Dissecting patriarchy

Pitha Uktha, a play enacted by students of the School of Drama & Fine Arts, Thrissur, attempted to probe a regressive system through two famous father-daughter duo

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