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
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
Lucknow ‘ 76 , a play set across 100 hundred years of Indian history, from 1876 to 1976 opens at the MLR Convention Hall, Brigade Millenium, J P Nagar , Bangalore on 13th of February 2008. Directed by Abhishek Majumdar and devised by an ensemble of actors the play looks at the lives of common people in the historic city of Lucknow in 1876 , when Queen Victoria had taken over from the East India Company as the empress of India and in 1976 when Indira Gandhi had imposed press censorship as part of the national emergency. Lucknow ‘76 moves between these two time frames and looks at the effects that history has on common people. The play has been supported by the British Library in London for its research and by Kathalaya in Bangalore for its making. This production is also supported by Black Coffee Productions. The play will later come to the Rangashankara on 1-Mar-2008 ( 7: 30 p.m) and 2-Mar-2008 ( 3:30 p.m and 7: 30 p.m) . Lucknow ‘76 is in aid of Concern India Foundation, a non-profit public charitable trust which was started in 1991 with the objective of ‘Helping People Help Themselves’. The aim of the foundation is to help make every underprivileged individual self-reliant, creating a society of independent people living with dignity. Tickets available at Crosswords, Residency Road, K C Das, St Marks Road and at the venue.
February 12th, 2008
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