In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Flinntheater and Jagriti Curtain Raiser’s present C sharp C blunt Flinntheater Kassel/ Berlin is proud to present its latest offering C sharp C blunt, an Indo-German collaboration. Drawing on a wide range of talent, this innovative devised performance is bound to intrigue as it goes on an exploration of the (un)known. Directed by Sophia […]
Just Theatre is proud to announce the premier of their latest theatre production-Somewhat Like a Balloon. Details: Written and Directed by: Vinod Ravindran Devised and Performed by: Anshul Pathak, Anjali Nair, Rency Philip and Swetanshu Bora Language: English Duration: 80 minutes Dates: 22nd to 24th February Time: 22nd and 23rd -8 PM. 24th-3 PM and 6.30 PM Venue: At Jagriti Theatre, on Whitefield Road, […]
After performing Piya Behrupiya to a fabulous response from press and public at the recently concluded Rangashankara Festival, The Company Theatre is back with “NOTHING LIKE LEAR”. This is a devised theatre performance based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is directed by Rajat Kapoor and performed alternately by Atul Kumar and Vinay Pathak. For any information..contact […]
Serendipity often irrevocably alters preordained lives. Mona Ambegaonkar, of the fiercely intelligent eyes and a face like a living memory, for instance was going to study science and could not have imagined that one day she would become chief assistant director of Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India. Or a model, writer, producer and director of documentaries, an actor working with renowned […]
To Act Is To Do is a theatre and performance workshop that renowned actor (across the platforms of cinema, TV , theatre and beyond) Mona Ambegaonkar brings to Bangalore on November 23 and 24 at Atta Galatta. She says, “I use theatre training techniques mainly to help actors realize when and how and why they hit their individual […]
UNSELFED After an impressive opening run in Pondicherry at Adishaki and in Chennai at Spaces and the Alliance Francaise, Unselfed travels to Bangalore. Unselfed is a new devised performance piece which explores subjective ideas and propositions of parallel/multiple selves. What if you met another you – a living, breathing other you? Would you have a conversation with […]
The Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2012 in Bangalore pays a tribute to the dramatic genius of William Shakespeare and one of the short plays hosted at the festival is.. The Seduction of Lady Anne: Excerpts from William Shakespeare’s Richard III ** Synopsis: Lady Anne is in mourning as her husband Edward and her father-in-law Henry […]
Based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Piya Behrupiya is a Hindi musical drama by The Company Theatre and directed by theatre doyen Atul Kumar. It played to a packed house at London’s Globe theatre and was recently staged at Pune’s Nehru Hall. The play unfurls with a huge portrait of Shakespeare to whom the arriving stage actors pay […]
** About Header and Footer Club: The Header and Footer Club at IISc (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), has enjoyed many creative collaborations and has entertained more than 5000 people inside and outside campus with stand-up comedy, street plays and full length comedies. The theatre club has won prizes at national level at various cultural […]
Piya Behrupiya, the Hindi musical version of Twelfth Night brought by The Company Theatre will open in Pune on the 13th of October, this year. This play was staged recently at the World Shakespeare Festival in London-UK and was applauded by a full house. In the words of its director, Atul Kumar, the audiences in […]
How do good journeys begin? In good faith ofcourse. Here is the story of the Bangalore based Header and Footer Club (HAFC). The club was started in late 2009, primarily as a space to air opinions and discuss issues via satire and fun events, street plays, stage plays and stand up comedy. At the time, the […]
AFTER ROCKING SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE DURING WORLD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, LONDON NOW OPENING IN NEW DELHI! TWELFTH NIGHT BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TRANSLATED INTO HINDI BY AMITOSH NAGPAL PIYA BEHRUPIYA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGWlGaheHWU) DIRECTED BY ATUL KUMAR THE COMPANY THEATRE PRODUCTION MUMBAI-INDIA DURATION- 120 MINUTES WITH INTERVAL SCHEDULE: 20,21,22,23 AUGUST 2012 at 7:30 pm, KAMANI THEATRE NEW DELHI […]