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Dear Reader, The NCPA Cheer Festival, which has just begun, is showcasing a variety of comedy ranging from plays to stand-up acts and a relatively new genre called Improv Comedy. In our Theatre Gupshup this week, Naveen Kaushik, who heads Improv Comedy Mumbai (ICM) gives us a background to this genre of comedy. He and his team are staging their show ICM POPCORN at the festival. Dhruv Lohumi, also from the team, shares his Theatre Speak. Vikash Khurana's Nagpur-based group Stagecraft will stage its adaptation of Marcel Archard's play L'IDIOTE. The adaptation titled A SHOT IN THE DARK will also be performed as part of the NCPA Cheer festival this weekend. Ramu Ramanathan will alphabetically decode Mumbai's theatre: A to Z of theatre in Mumbai at Junoon's upcoming Mumbai Local session. The session is housefull but you can watch it being streamed live at 5 pm on 4th June on Junoon's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/junoontheatre/ The video shall also be available later. Aadyam will stage the premiere of 12 ANGRY JURORS, directed by Nadir Khan for theatre company Rage at St. Andrews. Ideas Unlimited's play on Gandhi called MOHAN NO MASALO, directed by Manoj Shah will now be staged in three languages- Hindi, Gujarati and English in three different shows on the same day at Prithvi theatre. Its solo actor Pratik Gandhi shares his Theatre Speak. Previews we have recently uploaded include VERONICA'S ROOM, AAPNE BANNE SAME TO SAME and JYAN LAKSHMI TYAN NARAYAN. Entries for our online, one-act play competition ENatya Shodh have been extended to 7th June. Cheers, Deepa Punjani Editor, Mumbai Theatre Guide For any queries, suggestions, feedback, please mail us at: response@mumbaitheatreguide.com or at deepa.punjani@gmail.com or simply call us at: 91.22.40169979/80/81, 91.9223251148 If you are interested in featuring your Theatre Group on our site, please let us know. We would like to give our readers access to all the information that they may want vis-a-vis the Mumbai theatre scene. |
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| Naveen Kaushik: "When we started 7 years ago, no one knew what Improv comedy was. We were the only team. Now more people are learning it. More people are watching it..." |
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| Pratik Gandhi: "I feel the theatre scene in Mumbai has created some of the best theatre productions in the country in terms of content, performances, production values, commercial viability..." Dhruv Lohumi: "Improv theatre artists perform something called an ''Improvathon''. It's a non-stop 50 hr. show where the actors improvise a show without any sleep for the 50 hr. duration..." | ||||||
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To find out about Theatre Workshops that have been registered on our website visit - http://www.mumbaitheatreguide.com/dramas/workshop/ |
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Stagecraft Theatre experiments with a comedy-thriller for the first time with an adaptation of Marcel Achard's L'IDIOTE... An upcoming theatre festival by The Cuckoo Club will showcase six solo plays across nine days... Ideas Unlimited's play on Gandhi's formative years in three different languages on the same day... Rage Productions in collaboration with Aadyam presents the classic play TWELVE ANGRY JURORS... The fifth edition of NCPA Cheer presents four new stand-up acts, two premiering plays and a live podcast... | ||||||
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