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Play: Silence! The court is in session
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Show timings: 25-apr-2007 (7.30pm), 26-apr-2007 (3.30pm and 7.30pm)
It’s telling of the potency of a play, when it continues to be staged decades after it was originally written. In Silence! The Court is in Session Vijay Tendulkar takes the covers off a conformist society, to show us just what it is capable of when given the power to lord over those who live by their own rules.
With a drama woven into a drama, the play revolves around theatre group about to perform a play in a village. As the plot thickens, the comforting mist of ‘pretend’ starts to dissolve revealing the frustrated, bitter and jaded lives of the performers.
Light years ahead of its times, Silence… exposes the dark side of middle class morality, where judgements are passed by the minute and silence is often the only recourse left to the defendant.
About the group
“Version One Dot Oh!” (VODO - www.vodo.blogpsot.com) is a young theatre group based in Bangalore consisting of members from various backgrounds who share a common passion for theatre. Members include IT professionals, lawyers, journalists, students, TV actors etc.
VODO has staged more than 30 shows of 7 different plays over the last 3 years including Sriranga’s Shadows in the Dark and Listen Janamejaya, Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay! Won’t Pay!, Mary Chase’s Harvey, Christopher Durang’s Actor’s Nightmare and Monty Python Sketches; Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, A collection of short stories by Shashi Deshpande - Chimeras; all of which have been well received and appreciated by audiences in Bangalore, Mumbai and Dharwad.
Silence! The Court is in Session marks the 8th stage production of VODO
About the playwright
Vijay Tendulkar was born in Mumbai on January 6, 1928. Mostly classified as social satires, his plays are known for their honest, often feminist, stand on issues that were conveniently swept under the carpet. His better known works include Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (Silence! The Court is in Session), Ghashiram Kotwal, Mitrachi Goshta (A Friend’s Story) and Sakharam Binder.
Silence!…, written in Marathi(Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe) in 1967, fetched Tendulkar a Sahitya Academy Award.
For details call VOD productions at 99800 08278/ 98455 01929
April 21st, 2008
PERCH ( A performance collective from Madras) presents to you, AN ENGLISH PLAY - SANGATHI ARINHYA! (HAVE YOU HEARD! ) AT RANGASHANKARA, from 22nd - 27th april 08.
This play is a part of the ” Under the Mangosteen Tree festival” ,
which celebrates the centennary year of the aclaimed writer, ‘Vaikom
Muhammad Basheer”. Having performed in Madras, in Jan 08, to about
8500 audiences, PERCH brings down The english play - SANGATHI
ARINHYA !
( HAVE YOU HEARD !), alongwith a photo exhibition of rare archival
photographs of Basheer, - “Portraits of the Sultan”, and Moplah
cuisine served at the rangashankara cafe.
Details :
ENGLISH PLAY : SANGATHI ARINHYA! (HAVE YOU HEARD!)
22nd -27th april 08
22 - 25th - 730 pm
26 & 27 th - 330 pm & 730 pm
Tickets at rs 100/- Available at Landmark (forum mall), Blossom book
house (church st), Rangashankara
Call PERCH for bookings at 9945108610 / 9845602265
Do check out www.perch.co.in and www.collective-perch.blogspot.com
April 16th, 2008
Logos Theatre, in association with Natakvalas, is presenting ‘Shreds and Patches’ - a solo piece devised and performed by Arka Mukhopadhyay - on 23rd April, on the occasion of William Shakespeare’s birth and death anniversary. The piece takes as its starting point the question : ‘Who is ‘my’ Shakespeare? What does he mean to me, as a performer, as an Indian, and as a human being?’ An object of deep love and veneration, the ultimate symbol of human genius, or a disturbing symbol of the colonizing force of language? The piece attempts to find the answers in fragments of the bard’s plays and sonnets themselves - the shreds and patches of him (the title is taken from the closet scene of Hamlet) that are reflected in various realms of our own experiences. The piece delves first into the troubling questions of staging Shakespeare, of finding his ‘meaning’, and ultimately, into the meaning of performance itself. It branches out in different directions - Into the exterior world of Bollywood and IT, Iraq and occupied Palestine, of intolerance and organized terror. Yet it is just as much an exploration of form and medium - trying to find, if possible, ways of looking at Shakespeare through the structure of ancient Indian theatre, probing into the universe of the performer’s body and its relationship with the peformance space, and finally trying to unify the deeply personal and the universal in the playground of Shakespeare’s texts. .
Structured in the form of storytelling, the performance is essentially non-repeatable, for it makes itself as it goes along, relying only on its own internal logic to find direction, delving into the ephemeral heart of theatre itself – a tribute to the man who, more than anyone in any age or place, personifies the dramatic art.
At: Centre for Film and Drama, fifth floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road.
On: April 23rd, at six PM and again at eight PM.
Duration: fifty-five minutes
Tickets: Rs. 200/-, available from April 16th onwards.
Call 9844473429 for details and bookings.
April 13th, 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
March 27th, 2008
This is the first residential workshop for children initiated by Theatre Lab. It will be run at our Artist’s Retreat, 40 km down the Magadi Road, Bangalore and next to Centre for Learning.
The focus is theatre; hence all activities will be inter-related and eventually linked to the theatre-making process.
The camp will run from April 10th – 13th 2008. It is meant for children aged 11 and over, with a keen interest in theatre, learning and skills-building.
PROGRAM
Trekking
Sources for Theatre-making: Nature Diaries
Physical Theatre: Kalari Payattu
Shakespeare: Iambic Pentameter/Sonnets/Soliloquies
Masks: Archetypes & Mask making in Theatre
Sutradhar skills: Story creating/telling in Theatre
Rangabhoomi: Terracotta tile-making
Creation of a story telling stage
Logistics
Ø Five adult resource persons for children at all times
Ø To Retreat - On the 10th, there will be a central pick up by bus for all the children
Ø From Retreat - On the 13th, parents are invited to join us for dinner and a showing of work by the children
Ø Accommodation will be in a dormitory & tents
Ø Food will be vegetarian/organic/healthy
Ø Children will participate in picking vegetables and cooking dinner
Ø Children will have free time to write, paint and play football, volleyball & cricket
Ø Fee Rs 4,000/- each.
Ø For more information, contact Kirtana at 98452-13857 or 25559291
Little Jasmine Films & DigiFunk
58 St.Mark’s Road
Bangalore 560 001
INDIA
http://www.konarakreddy.com/
March 27th, 2008
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