Plays that I go to watch generally seem to be either serious or entertaining and there seems hardly any overlap between both genres. However, "Dekh Behen (2)", staged by Akvarious Productions, seemed to span both types of drama effectively...and effortlessly ( Read more... )

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There are some plays to which I go with a "clean slate"...that is, I know nothing about the play except perhaps the brief sentences on the blurbs; but there are times when I get to know quite a lot about the play, the history of its evolution, and the group performing it. So I went to watch "The Verdict", staged by Akvarious Productions with quite ( Read more... )

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Going to a play in an enclosed space after a long gap makes one think and hesitate a bit, but I had heard about Vivek Vijayakumar's work earlier, and when I read that the work created by the Our Theatre Collective, "Imagine A Room" was going to be staged, I was keen on watching it. Due to my own commitments I could not watch it at Shoonya ( ( Read more... )

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It was like a rare alignment of the planets: several factors come together to pull me out of my usual Ranga Shankara ambit for watching a play ( Read more... )

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Do adults go to watch children's plays? Or to be more precise, do adults go to watch children's puppet theatre...without children accompanying them? The answer, for me, was a resounding yes. I had been hoping to take my grandchildren to at least some of the puppet theatre festival be at Ranga Shankara, under the AHA! banner.


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