Garbo

 

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 their own lives with non-conformism for a credo; throwing up in the process a small minority culture, containing within itself its own seeds of destruction. The drama in Garbo grows out of a claustrophobic real-life situation pushed to the limits of endurance, burgeoning into a surreal holy dream that is too unreal and brittle to stand the test.

 

DIRECTOR’S NOTE:
Making Garbo has been a challenging and exciting experience. Although the idealism portrayed in it may not seem contemporary, I feel it lies beneath our skins, and hence arises the need to peel that skin off. Garbo has been a bold, mature and multi-layered process for us driven by a desire to put something which has been rejected 40 years ago in an alternative aesthetic. The play made us scrutinize form, undermined our own working methods, relinquished normal patterns of devising and questioned what kind of verbal, textual language we want to speak. We have loved making this piece that is utterly pessimistic in its optimism, humorous in its tragedy, unusual in the voice it has found – a strange and complex next step to my past work.

 

On Stage:
Intuc: Nachiket Poornapatre
Shrimant: Omkar Govardhan
Pansy: Sarang Sathaye
Garbo: Radhika Apte

 

Off Stage:
Playwright: Mahesh Elkunchwar
Stage Design & Direction: Mohit Takalkar
Light Design: Pradeep Vaiddya
Costumes: Rashmi Rode
Stage Manager: Ashish Mehta
Sound: Sagar Deshmukh
Backstage: Sachin Deshmukh, Rananjay Velhankar, Mrinmayee Godbole, Suyash Tilak

 

NOMINEES
1. Best Actor-Male: NACHIKET PURNAPATRE
2. Best Actor in a Supporting Role-Male : SARANG SATHAYE

 

Nachiket Purnapatre
Having worked with Natya Sanskaar Kala Academy for ten years, Nachiket Purnapatre has performed in around twenty productions for children’s theatre. He has also worked with various other theatre cults. Some of his works include Takshak Yaag, Abhaas ki Bhaas, Opuntia, Safar, Kokru, Kovli Unhe, Ramaprahar, Tu, Poornaviram, Charshe Kotee Visarbhole, Bedke Neeche Rehnewali.  Nachiket was recipient of Best Supporting Actor for the play TU at META 2007.


Sarang Sathaye 
 Sarang has been working consistently as an actor, director and technician for the past four years. He has acted in plays like Tu, Poornaviram, Charshe Kotee Visarbhole and Kashmir Kashmir. He has been the light designer for Aasakta productions of Kale Divas, Bedke Neeche Rehnewali. Along with Aasakta, he has worked with leading Marathi experimental groups like Maharashtra Cultural Centre, Samanvay, Ramaprahar, Pan Aamhala Khelaychay, etc. Sarang has also enacted roles in feature films like Life on the Line, Ek Marathi Manoos and Nital.

 


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