Archives for: The Plays

February 18, 2010, New Delhi: From March 2 – 6, the Delhi stage (at Kamani Auditorium and Sriram Centre) will reverberate with the exciting actions of the best from The Mahindra Theatre Festival.
This will happen when we see the performances of the 10 finest productions out of the 233 entries from across the country in [...]

META celebrates highest number of entries collected in its fifth year
10 best entries shortlisted for the prestigious Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards

February 08, 2010, New Delhi: India’s most prestigious theatre honour recorded the highest number of entries in its last 5 years – for  META 2010.

With over 230 entries collected nationwide, META also [...]

2nd March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 5:00pm

Producer: Shabdaakaar Art and Cultural Society
Director: Tripurari Sharma
Language: Hindi
Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutes

This play has the popular performing tradition of “NAUTANKI” as its backdrop. Till a few years ago (and in some parts even today) men adorn the female persona which is passed on from [...]

5th March 2010 at Kamani Auditorium, 7:30pm

Producer - Theatre Arpana
Director - Sunil Shanbag
Language - Hindi
Duration   - 2 Hours 30 Minutes

The play is a seduction of ideas exploring one of the most controversial issues of our time – morality and censorship. The play flashes back to the early ’70s when Vijay Tendulkar’s classic, Sakharam [...]

4th March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 5:00pm

Producer: Anamika
Director: Milind Phatak & Rasika Joshi
Language: Marathi
Duration: 2 Hours 15 Minutes

The play is the contemporary play – a black comedy – of a man & a woman in their 40’s. They are very close Chat Friends involved even in erotic chat. At one point of [...]

4th March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 7:30pm

Producer: Oxygen Theatre Company
Director: Deeapan Sivaraman
Language: Malayalam
Duration:   1 Hour 45 Minutes

Spinal Cord narrates the story of a murder and its tragic consequences in a township.
Twenty seven years after the incident the victim’s mother wakes up from a haunting nightmare with unpleasant memories of her son. Through [...]

3rd March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 5:00pm

Producer: The Kanglei Mime Theatre Repertory
Director: Yumnam Sadananda Singh
Language: Non Verbal
Duration:   1 Hour

Dedicated to Irom Chanu Sharmila, Mirel Masingkha is a physical play based on her repressed campaign against terrorism. In the last few decades Manipur has been witnessing a chaotic state full of incorrigible [...]

5th March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 5:00pm

Producer: UTSA
Director: Bidyawati Phukan
Language: Assamese
Duration:   1 Hour 45 Minutes

Subha, an accomplished Dhulia, is in love with Ghunusa, his teacher’s daughter. The girl is exceptionally gifted-‘lotus blooms in her steps, the cuckoo sings in her gaze and she has only to wish, and it rains.’ The [...]

2nd March 2010 at Kamani Auditorium, 7:30pm

Producer: Aasakta Kalamanch
Director: Mohit Takalkar
Language: Marathi
Duration:   1 Hour 35 Minutes

Garbo is about the class of ‘young people’ living aimlessly with frustration of shattered dreams, the diffusion of mediocrity, and the burden of inhibitions. A play about the generation which breaks out into defiance of living out [...]

3rd March 2010 at Kamani Auditorium, 7:30pm

Producer: DAPON, the mirror and  P.D.C West Garo Hills, Meghalaya
Director: Pabitra Rabha
Language: Garo
Duration: 1 Hour 20 Minutes

The Play A–Chik A-Song is based on the socio- political history of the Garo Hills during 1870-1872 with special reference to the glorious first and the last arms struggle of the [...]

6th March 2010 at Sri Ram Centre, 5:00pm

Producer: Akvarious Productions
Director: Akarsh Khurana
Language: English
Duration:   1 Hour 20 Minutes

Blackbird is an unnerving and controversial play that taunts us with the limits of our own language, our taboos and our conceptions of love, abuse and closure. Una, a confident young woman, confronts Ray, an aging middling [...]

6th March 2010 at Kamani Auditorium, 7:30pm

Producer: Kasba Arghya
Director: Manish Mitra
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali
Duration:   1 Hour 40 Minutes
Bharatkatha is a research-based production on the folk theatres of our country like PANDAVANI, JHUMUR and CHOW DANCE. It is based on the great epic THE MAHABHARATA, a theatrical performance exploring the energy source of those [...]

The Nominations for META 2010 are…

Photos of the 2009 Awards ceremony at the Taj Hotel, New Delhi.

M.K. RAINA
In his 35 year career, M.K. Raina has directed over a 100 plays in various Indian languages encompassing a range of genres including Folk, Sanskrit and Western Classical and Contemporary Theatre. He has directed and produced television serials and documentaries like Zameen, Surabhi, Munshi Premchand ki Kahaniyan etc. As an actor he has [...]

28th February, SRI RAM CENTRE, 7:30 pm

Produced by: Actors’ Cult Production
Language: Hindi
Duration: 2 Hours 15 Minutes (including interval)

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
As somebody said…
Life is a celebration.
So let’s celebrate…
Our dreams and our realities,
Our happiness and our sorrow,
Our togetherness and our loneliness,
Our success and our failure,
Our frustration and our excitement,
Our madness and [...]

3RD March, KAMANI AUDITORIUM, 7:30 pm

Produced by: Akvarious Productions
Language: Hindi
Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Being a writer myself, I’m programmed to strongly believe that content is king. As a producer and director, I usually select plays on the basis of strong narratives. That is, stories worth telling. When I first read this script, the era, [...]

4TH March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30 pm

Produced by: Akvarious Productions
Language: English
Duration: 2 Hours (including interval)

DIRECTOR’S NOTEI selected this play because I found the form very interesting. The idea of having five different stories which are interconnected but don’t necessarily follow a linear pattern was intriguing and challenging. While directing All About Women the main focus [...]

2ND March, SRI RAM CENTRE, 4:30 pm

Produced by: Ravivarma Kalanilayam
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 1 Hour 50 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Three generations…
Son, Father, Grandfather…
Among them there is one Yohannan…
What is sin…? It has to be begun from the Bible itself.   It can only be begun but it is varied in the eyes of religion, individual, time and space. Yet they all are one and [...]

4TH March, KAMANI AUDITORIUM, 7:30 pm

Produced by: The Company Theatre
Language: English & Gibberish
Duration: 1 Hour 40 Minutes

DIRECTOR’S NOTE
This play is a search in the world of Hamlet through the eyes of Clowns. The clown has fascinated me for many years and this motif appears again and again in all my work including my film work. [...]