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In step with the times (Clockwise from far left) In full koothu costume; the Jogappas sing; the traditional dance of the Todas; Thudumbattam gets everyone grooving; an Odissi recital; Mohiniattam by Vidya Pradeep and team; a Carnatic performance by Sangeetha Sivakumar and group

Liberty, equality, fraternity and fun: A round up of Svanubhava 2020 at Anaikatti

Children and grown ups sang and danced their fidgets away in between discussions, drama and some wonderful music

From the Tamil play ‘Dharaniyin Perumai’

A play on Nani Palkhivala

Kumaresh Ramakrishnan Dummies’ play brings on stage the remarkable personality of Nani Palkhivala

For an inclusive stage

Neeraja Murthy Transwoman Harshini Mekala hopes her acting stint in ‘Badlav’ will transform her life

Those hilarious in-laws

Sravasti Datta A rib-tickling drama on the dynamics between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law will be staged

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Disturbing details: A scene from “Uble Daane Toast Par”

Navigating the concrete jungle

Diwan Singh Bajeli The Hindi adaptation of Girish Karnad’s “Boiled Beans on Toast” depicted human condition in a metropolis

Younger Nagarathnamma (Deepti Srinatha) with musicians

Bengaluru Nagarathnamma: An extraordinary woman

V.R. Devika A musical play depicting the life of Bengaluru Nagarathnamma was premiered recently

Layered narrative: A scene from “Daughters Opera”

“Daughters Opera”: Staging feminist solidarities

Shrinkhla Sahai Embracing multiple forms, “Daughters Opera” presents women’s experiences of violence in everyday life

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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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Light among the darkness

Woman of substance

A Kafkaesque condition of hunger

Fragrance from unknown lands

VAST uses physical theatre to drive home the point that man longs for Nature

Nostalgia Theatre

Jubilee of Sridhar's film Sivanda Mann celebrated

Sparring with censorship

Set in a boxing ring, Deepika Arwind’s I Am Not Here looks inwards into bruised social structures, says Vikram Phukan

Consumerism and climate change are characters in Visual Respiration’s Under Pressure

Bengaluru-based outfit Visual Respiration takes on layered conversations on the environment and its deterioration through movement theatre and contact improvisation

Stand-up comic Sorabh Pant’s set Born on Mars is based on his life

Sorabh Pant’s latest show Born on Mars has the comedian steering clear of political topics and pop culture which he usually addresses

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap: What happens backstage...

We get behind the scenes when the longest-running West End show, based on Agatha Christie’s short story Three Blind Mice, comes to the city

The richness of Islamic theatre

A classroom debate moderated by this writer last week, with students of drama, brought to the fore misapprehensions regarding what one might term

Saadat Hassan Manto and Ismat Chughtai, in lighter vein

The play ‘Ismat Aur Manto ki Chuhalbaaziyan’ attempts to showcase the buddy-like bond between the two writers

Catalyst for conflict

Faezeh Jalali’s new play is a farcical take on Mumbai’s ‘cosmopolitanism’, says Vikram Phukan

What ails theatre?

Vijay Kenkre on how plays need star actors to draw audience

Six plays, one performance

Ajit Chitturi’s “The Journey” portrays a gamut of human emotions and frailties

Stories of social contradictions

A three-day theatre festival in Delhi presented an optimistic scenario of the work of young playwrights in Hindi

Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2019 stages talent from across the country

From plays and talks to games and musical performances, Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2019 brings artistic talents from across the country

SPARK theatre’s Gulliver’s Travels with an all-kids cast heads for the PINKS Fest in Penang

Gulliver’s Travels, which was earlier performed in Chennai, features children between the ages of five and 14 as performers

Finding the right key

The play #Feminist looks at complex issues with a touch of humour

An aesthetic and moral manifesto

A theatre production that has been gathering buzz over recent weeks is Riḥla from the Aagaaz Theatre Trust. Directed by Neel Chaudhuri, the play is

Make time for Chennai Art Theatre’s midnight binge special

Ditch the late night show at the movies next weekend for Chennai Art Theatre’s binge special

Spotlight on the shadows

With “Kasturba” and “My Father – His Exalted Highness”, director-actor Mohammed Ali Baig is exploring little known facets of personalities, which are often passed over in popular culture

Reclaiming the legend of Bhagat Singh

Piyush Mishra’s Gagan Damama Bajyo centres around the young freedom fighter’s ideology of universal brotherhood, anarchism, atheism and fierce patriotism

At this therukoothu workshop, prepare for the roles of common characters

There is a defined structure to a therukoothu performance which even the audiences need to have an inkling of, in order to follow

Speech, movement and theatre

Nadubesigeirula Nalganasu and When we dead awaken, addressed the problem of language in theatre

This theatre experience lets one be performer and audience

Anuja Ghosalkar, founder of city-based theatre group Drama Queen, brings documentary theatre to Bengaluru

Iconic West End play based on Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, is touring India

West End’s longest running stage production ever, The Mousetrap, will be staged in Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai in November

The idea of India

What is Indian culture? Who owns it? And who gets to be its arbiter? A new play that questions ideas of representation and Indianness

For Mohit Takalkar a play is made in the rehearsal process

Mohit Takalkar on why he finds theatre-making exciting

“A Few Good Men”: Murder of a marine

Set in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, “A Few Good Men” is a court room drama brimming with suspence and tension

Some impressions...

Through ideas from Stephen Hawking’s work on Black Holes, Jyoti Dogra makes a moving case for our emotionality

Talking in their own voices

The Ninasam Tirugata plays, Rakshasa Tangadi and Karna Sangatya, brought memorable theatre. It also made a case for aesthetic value to have a room of its own

‘Young India is motivated by live theatre’

Actor, director and ‘Shakespeare missionary’ Gareth Armstrong on why the bard is relevant today

Play on Paramahamsa brilliant in all aspects

From script to sets and acting, ‘Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsar’ took one’s breath away

A contemporary revival

Himalayachi Savali returns to the stage with a spirited air of nostalgia, topicality and great performances

Storyteller Emily Hennessey travels the world to tell tales from Indian and Norse mythology

The UK-based artiste was recently in Chennai to lead a workshop on introducing storytelling as a tool in workspaces

Compelling portrait of a leading lady

Devika Rani, the new play from the Primetime Theatre Company, focuses on the actress who holds an indefinite lease on the title of the first lady of

A tale of torture

“Baby” captures the pain of a woman who becomes victim of a sadistic gangster

A transgender theatre group focuses on the lives of fellow members through a play

Mazhavil Dhwani which works towards the upliftment of the members of the transgender community in the State, has 15 members, all trans persons, taking the stage to narrate their experiences

Imaad Shah aka Madboy is a man of many talents

The 33-year-old artiste has a lot going on from performing in Madboy/Mink to scoring for films, producing music and acting. They are all steps to his end goal of becoming a director, he says

Arun Kakade: a backbone for the arts

The passing of Arun Kakade at his Santa Cruz residence on Wednesday, at the age 88, has brought to a close one of the more noteworthy chapters in the

A ‘murderous’ discovery

Dramatech’s “Towards Zero” provides chills and thrills in equal measure

Staging stories

The Kathakar Festival celebrates the power of storytelling

Arun Govil: A Ram we all know

Arun Govil says Ram hasn’t become aggressive, it is the political climate that has

The enduring tale of Imam-e-Hind

Ahead of the première of “Dastaan-e-Ram”, writer Danish Iqbal discusses the joys and challenges of re-imagining the epic as an Urdu play

On the art of making music for drama

Well-known composer Amod Bhatt shares how the legend, B.V. Karanth, helped him find his life’s calling

Shifting stories of aspiration, loss and exploitation

Aadyam’s next production Mosambi Narangi is a rollicking rib-tickler with an undercurrent of melancholy, says Vikram Phukan

A series of sensory experiences

Theatremaker Sujay Saple and sound artist Mitsuaki Matsumoto’s collaboration is all about seamlessly merging sonic and corporeal elements, says Vikram Phukan

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