MOUSE & POSITIONS

March 27th, 2008

The Mayo Alumni Association of Southern India
presents

a
FIRST CITY THEATRE FOUNDATION
production

TWO PLAYS

MOUSE & POSITIONS

written and directed by Neel Chaudhuri

7:30 pm | 4-Apr-2008 and 5-Apr-2008 | Rangashankara
tickets available at venue

ABOUT THE FIRST CITY THEATRE FOUNDATION
The First City Theatre Foundation was set up by First City, Delhi’s city magazine, to produce and promote quality theatre in Delhi, and to encourage the development of innovative and original work on stage.  Apart from staging full-fledged productions, The First City Theatre Foundation holds regular play readings, alternative performances and workshops through the calendar year, with the aim of revitalising theatre in the city.

ABOUT THE PLAYS
MOUSE is about a play in waiting. A young director readies her actor for the first performance of an idiosyncratic play. In the course of last minute revisions they struggle between her anxieties and his diffidence, making us wonder why this uncanny duo even came together in the first place. Mouse throws a torch light on the insecurities of the artist - the smallest, weakest artist. It is a play that observes our little ambitions in their most monstrous proportions.

POSITIONS is a collection of six vignettes or ’stolen moments’ involving the interactions of a miscellany of characters. It has been developed over two years through a series of improvisations, workshops and two separate productions. The stories explore the nature of storytelling in theatre - plot, narrative and convention - with a sense of adventure. How we begin and end a story rarely changes. It is what we do in between and how that counts.

Excerpt from reviews:

” The strength of [Mouse] is the dialogue … This is not a play with a social message or with reformist ambitions and it doesn’t apologise for that. Rife with subtle satire it exposes the loftiness of directors’ ambitions, their timid insecurities and their unreal expectations of actors … The wit evokes Bernard Shaw. It uses his wry sarcasm but adds modern irony.” Nandini Nair, The Hindu

” The sort of storytelling that ‘Positions’ favours, with its long silences, garbled and often nonsensical dialogue, and quiet and accidental humour, should become the ’stuff’ of this new breed of storytellers … Each vignette breathes a new sense of potential; if this is the future of Delhi theatre (and it must be), they might be on to something quite special.” Pratap Ramanathan

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