Puppeteers Without Strings

Puppeteers Without Strings

Post 9/11, just as America began to view its history in a context where there was always a before and an after, will the Charlie Hebdo attacks colour the way France views itself? French theatre director, actress and puppeteer Aude Maréchal considers the question as she sips her black coffee in the Ranga Shankara cafe […]

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The Man Who Can Be Anything

The Man Who Can Be Anything

Can Shakespeare be reinterpreted with irreverence? Can psychological drama meld into physical theatre? Can one actor play 14 characters? If you were to ask these questions to Australian theatre professional, Tref Gare, his answer would be a resounding, ‘yes.’ Gare was in India for the first time to perform in and as Kings’s Player from […]

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Space

Space

What is the value of a person whose dawn breaks  on streets or railway stations who sips tea at dingy canteens each day whose sells scrap to live who sleeps under an empty sky Who is he in the city of dreams? I don’t know. Perhaps he is a mascot of disparity, inequality of empty […]

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Laksa In Singapore

Laksa In Singapore

Aromatic air, the hustle and bustle of men and women working furiously to churn out local, authentic and traditional meals at food counters and proudly exhibiting an array of mouth-watering delicacies. The buzz and the energy of  those who cook and those who love to eat . I am not just talking about food, but a food paradise. ** This is […]

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Baby: Meet The Indian Sniper

Baby: Meet The Indian Sniper

Ironical that for a film that tars Pakistan as the enemy behind every potential danger stalking India, Neeraj Pandey’s Baby has two popular Pakistani actors in key roles. Heartthrob Mikaal Zulfikaar as a young facilitator helping Indian agents and  seasoned actor Rasheed Naz as Maulana Mohammed Rehman,the dreaded “mother lode’ of terrorism. While watching the film, one […]

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Mahesh Dattani: Living And Writing Aloud

Mahesh Dattani: Living And Writing Aloud

Playwright Mahesh Dattani returns to his hometown Bengaluru with a play after almost two years though he was here in December to meet his sister. On January 30, Outgoing Free, a play written by Anupama Chandrasekhar, a Chennai-based journalist-turned-playwright and directed by Dattani will premiere at Ranga Shankara. ** The venue is very close to […]

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Celebrating The Power Of Synergy

Celebrating The Power Of Synergy

It has been fours years of theatre and dramatic synergies at Bangalore’s Jagriti Theatre and founders Arundhati and Jagdish Raja celebrated the moment with their  rapturously noisy team by cutting a cake. It however seems like yesterday when a spanking new creative space threw its doors open to theatre lovers in Bengaluru. ** Even today, […]

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