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Dear Reader, The highlights this week: The Shankar Shesh Mahotsav in honour of the eponymous late Hindi theatre playwright, begins tomorrow and will run over two days, showcasing four plays in all by the prodigious playwright at the Sathaye College Auditorium. Dr. Shankar Shesh was well-known in Hindi theatre for his plays such as POSTER and for a series of other plays that drew from the epic Mahabharata such as EK AUR DRONACHARYA. Rage, one of Mumbai's foremost English theatre groups, co-founded by the dynamic trio- Shernaz Patel, Rahul daCunha and Rajit Kapur, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an exciting and challenging theatre project called 36 GHANTE (36 HOURS) at NCPA's Tata Theatre today. The evening will also honour theatrewallahs, some of whom have been steadily working away in the background to keep the theatre machinery well-oiled. It's a housefull show – one of the great joys for all involved in the process. We wish Rage our best. Marathi theatre's famous and fêted playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar's trilogy on the Wada, has often been regarded as his best work. Producer-director Chandrakant Kulkarni mounts the trilogy in an ambitious eight-hour production. Shows will run through November. We take the opportunity to speak to Chandrakant Kulkarni, who is regarded among the astute and formidable producers in Marathi theatre and entertainment, on this feat, and his innings in the business. Plays: EK NATAK KI HATYA, SNOW WHITE and RAMLEELA will be staged at C.L.A.P. Centre this weekend. We have a tie-up with them to help theatre groups and independent artistes find affordable venues and new audiences. The Prithvi Theatre Festival 2017 begins next week. Six plays will premiere at the festival. There will be platform performances, talks, music paerformances with highlights such at the Sufi Music evening with the Noorani sisters and Western Classical Music by the Symphony Orchestra of India. You would want to get your tickets in time for this. We love not just the theatre but all the Arts and the Sciences, and from time to time, we recommend shows/events in the city. The late filmmaker Mani Kaul's daughter Shambhavi Kaul, a filmmaker and artist in her own right, is exhibiting her work titled: ''Silver Bird'' at the art gallery Jhaveri Contemporary. The show is on till 25th November. A series of photographs, a 40-page booklet, a single-channel film and a two-way video installation make up the four parts of the exhibition. At the centre of it is an airplane site. Drawing from the exterior of a decommissioned airplane to the confined space of the interior of a plane, Kaul's exhibits evoke time and space, paradise and hell, going away and passing on, in vivid and unhurried imagery. There are bits of text in the single-channel film titled 'Hijacked' placed in an interesting context. Do have a look. 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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Chandrakant Kulkarni: "There must be a purpose behind remaking a play other than just whipping up nostalgia. For instance, the Wada trilogy revisits the sociological history of Maharashtra..." |
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"I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don’t do this until I’ve done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration." - Christine Jones |
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