Archives for: 2010

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 [...]