In true bohemian revolution spirit of believing in Truth, beauty and freedom, but above all love.
YOURS TRULY THEATRE presents an interactive theatre performance
‘all you need is love’
Today all we need is a revolution of love to change the world and conquer hatred, violence and war.
So join us in recognizing, reliving and celebrating all the love we have in our lives.
Come and share all the lovely moments, feelings, emotions, dreams, memories, fears, hopes, and aspirations about love and watch them being enacted them on stage.
 
About the Interactive style of theatre
This performance is purely unscripted and unrehearsed interactive theatre show and
is created through a unique collaboration between performers and audience.
Audience shares a feeling, moment, and story from their life and  watch their story
immediately being recreated on stage by actors with artistic and aesthetic coherence.
Don’t miss this unique fun and entertaining theatre performance!
 
When – 22nd February, Sunday (22/2/2009)|
Where – Nayana auditorium, Ravindra kalakshetra, JC road, Bangalore
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2 shows – first one at 5pm and second one at 7pm
Books tickets now by call 9845243051 or 9845853093 or
email yourstrulytheatre@gmail.com. Visit our website www.yoursturly-theatre.com

Yours Truly Theatre
invites you to the play
“COMMON MAN”
in ‘Complete-the- story’
interactive theatre style.
03/02/2009

Get a chance to suggest an ending for this play
and watch your suggestions performed
by actors impromptu.

The play, Common Man

After four successful shows, Yours Truly Theatre is glad to present fifth show of the very entertaining play ‘Common Man’

This satire is presented in English and hindi.
about common man’s journey driven by hopes, dreams, aspirations and intentions of being noticed in a society that is oblivious to human emotions & engulfed in selfish motives and a mechanical life.

We invite you to be part of this exciting world of our common man where you get to decide his fate in ‘complete the story’ interactive theatre format

SO BEAT YOUR TUESDAY BLUES!
To enjoy an entertaining evening, get away from your desks

Be There At Ranga Shankara
On 3rd Feb 2009 Before 7.00 pm.

SO, JUST PICK UP YOUR PHONE
AND FOR TICKETS CALL
9845243051/ 9845853093 or open your mailbox and
mail us at yourstrulytheatre@ gmail.com.
Don’t forget to visit www.yourstruly- theatre.com

About the style of theatre

Complete The Story – This format devised internally by Yours truly theatre, combines improvisation and conventional drama, the actors perform a play in conventional style and at a crucial point of the story the performance is paused and the audience is invited to suggest an ending to the play. This ending which is decided by audience is then enacted by actors impromptu.

About Yours Truly Theatre

Yours Truly is a Bangalore based theatre group, known for experimenting with alternative theatre formats and styles. Yours truly is focused on developing theatre concepts which are relevant to today’s world. We believe theatre should transition into what cinema and mass media cannot provide and that is a personal intimate, interactive experience. All experimentations and theatre productions by Yours truly has received overwhelming response from the audience and has been well appreciated critics. Yours truly theatre has been invited to International theatre festival in sep2009 to be held at Armenia.

“The play ends, with a note that stirs one’s thought-process, making
the viewers recollect various instances which were similar
to the play. With the correct lighting to match scenes, dialogues that are in hindi as well as english which reach out to multi-lingual audience and also songs to match the emotions, the play did its purpose.”- Indian express

AUDIENCE REVIEWS

“…..and it was a really fun evening, and the young audience really went for it and there was a great sense of camaraderie in the hall! Also would like to mention that the production values were excellent. The actors are all very well versed in theatre forms such as mime and movements; even when the audience worked out the play, they had no difficulty in producing a stage-worthy denouement, which even raised a few more laughs.” – Audience>>read full review

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“The team of actors were definitely enjoying while performing
on stage as the audience could feel
the flow of energy and enthusiasm
in a palpable wave.”- – Audience>> Read full review

IS CANCELED DUE TO SECURITY REASONS

IS CANCELED DUE TO SECURITY REASONS

Habba literally denotes festival in Kannada – the local State language of Karnataka. The Bengaluru Habba aims to provide valuable and aesthetic entertainment at no cost for the audiences. We hope to expose youth to the joy of live traditional performing and visual arts and crafts and to make Bengaluru a culturally vibrant place. Classical dance performances, Carnatic & Hindustani music recitals, Folk dances, English & Regional theatre productions, Craft melas and Sports competitions add to the grandeur of the festival at multiple venues in the city. Internationally, nationally and locally acclaimed artists grace the Habba’s stage.

Ronu Majumdar & Kadri Gopalnath, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Lillette Dubey, Kala Madhyam artisans, EVAM productions, Galeej Gurus, and Aditi Mangaldas, Shaan, Sukhwinder Singh, Pandit Birju Maharaj, Pandits Ranjan & Sajan Mishra, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasiya, Shree L. Subramanyam, Shivamani and Taufiq Quereshi have all performed at previous Bengaluru Habbas.
To mark the 6th year celebration, the Government of Karnataka has graciously agreed to adopt the Bengaluru Habba as one of the flagship festivals of the state, in partnership with the private sector. This endeavour is the first of its kind in the country where the public, private and the industrial sector have come together to present the artistic palette of India which has enthralled millions around the world.

It indeed gives us great pleasure to invite you once again to another year of festivities at the 6th Bengaluru Habba from December 4th to December 21st, 2008.

All events are free and open to the public.
EVENT CALENDAR

ours truly is looking for enthusiastic people to join the team Announcing Weekend Theatre Workshop.

Yours Truly Theatre announces its next theatre workshop .
This 5-Sunday long workshop will culminate in a performance by the participants,
who will explore the creation of an entire production through character building, storytelling, Patterns and rhythms, physical training in different theatre styles and improvisations using the dramatic and theatrical facets.

Yours Truly is looking for passionate and enthusiastic people to be a part of this workshop.
For more details contact 9845243051/9845853093 OR mail us: yourstrulytheatre@gmail.com
Website:www.yourstruly-theatre.com

About Yours truly Theatre
Based in Bangalore, our strength lies in experimentation with various forms & formats of theatre. Yours Truly is working on developing more theatre concepts which are relevant to today’s world. We believe theatre should transition into what cinema and mass media cannot give, a personal intimate experience. Other than doing regular public show, one of the main aims of YT is to take theatre to people who can’t access theatre physically or financially, we work with Ngo’s and reach out labor camps, hospices, rehabilitation centers, juvenile homes .

About Our Recent productions
Common Man
This comedy is a social satire and is performed in the “Complete-The-Story” style of theatre. It is a tribute to the common man and his dreams, aspirations, conflicts. The play has been performed in Bangalore at Ranga Shankara many shows and will be travelling other cities . The play has been very well received by audience.

Bhagwaan Dundoo -a journey in search of god
A light hearted play which explores the journey of a tribal’s to the city in search of god. The play is a great entertainer with dance, music and audience interaction. However it leaves audience pondering over various issues faced today.

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Ranga Shankara’s Theatre & Arts Appreciation Course 2008
31 Oct to 2 Nov AND 7 Nov to 9 Nov
Anchored by Sadanand Menon
Anchor’s Note
INTERROGATING THE ARTS
The idea of this year’s programme is not so much ‘art appreciation’ as an ‘interrogation of the arts’.

How does the universe of the arts intersect our lives? How do we comprehend its special energy?

From being a plaything of the elites or of market forces, does it constitute an autonomous agency, whose insights can transform our lives?

Is it possible to conceptualise art and life as undifferentiated so that life itself becomes an extended artistic assertion?

How do artists conceptualise their work and what are the inspirations that inform their creative productions?

What is the special place that the arts and artists occupy in our consiousness and our awareness of life and society?

It is important to see the contiguity of diverse artistic expressions to understand the synergy and flow of a common force between distinct expressive media in the arts.

Keeping in mind the overall theme of the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival of ‘Company Theatre’, the ‘art appreciation’ package has been put together with the idea of getting an insight into how a certain kind of theatrical expression in the early twentieth century helped lay the foundations for the Bombay/ Bollywood cinema and a certain ‘tradition’ of musical concert format, and the construction of a distinct ‘popular’ visual lexicon.

Beyond that, it will have intimate moments when artists and analysts share their formation and their insight with the participants.

Most resource persons/presenters have been requested to trace a personal journey to facilitate the possibility of the participants entering their life and practice in a creative way and getting an exposure to concepts in arts and art history without tears.

The six days will include, besides seeing three plays, a chance to get face-to-face with a range of distinguished personalities, as the schedule of the programme will make self-evident.

Here’s hoping the participants will bring as much to the six days as they will take from it.

Sadanand Menon
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Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival ‘08
Highlights:

• Between 31 Oct and 9 Nov
• Ten days of Theatre extravaganza paying tribute to the glorious tradition of Company Theatre
• Featuring four top-line plays from across the country and two commissioned plays
• Two plays Jagajyoti Basaveshwara and Sadarame specially commissioned by Ranga Shankara (in association with Vodafone)
• Two shows everyday: 11.00 am (on 31 Oct)/2.00 PM (1 & 2 Nov; 7-9 Nov) and 7.30 PM
• The journey of Kannada Sangeet Natak over the last 70 years will be presented through its songs
• An evening of powerful solo performances by the greats of Company era, R.Nagarathnamma, Master Hirannaiah and Sarita Joshi
• Second edition of the Theatre & Arts Appreciation Course 2008
• Film Screenings – films from India and abroad on Company Nataka
• Walk Down Memory Lane featuring exhibitions of rare archival photos from the Company Era

Arundhati Nag, Creative Director of Ranga Shankara and K. Sankara Narayanan, CEO Vodafone Essar South Ltd., along with Girish Karnad, Playwright and Chairperson of the Sanket Trust today announced the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival ’08. The ten-day theatre extravaganza between 31 Oct and 09 Nov will celebrate the Golden Period of Indian Theatre that spanned over a century.

This year the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival (in association with Vodafone) will pay tribute to the Company Theatre, which dominated the Indian stage in the early part of the 20th century. Company Theatre, which celebrated theatricality and was best known for its spectacular quality, emerged as the country’s first modern commercial theatre and created what was perhaps the largest ticket-buying audience in Indian stage history. This theatrical style was greatly influenced by Parsi theatre, Marathi Sangeet Natak and several local performance traditions.
Ranga Shankara (in association with Vodafone) proudly announces two commissioned plays at this year’s Festival, Jagajyoti Basaveshwara and Sadarame. The doyen of Company Nataka, Sri. Yenagi Balappa will return to the stage as Haralayya in our revival of Jagajyoti Basaveshwara. His son Yenagi Nataraj will direct the play, whose cast includes Prakash Garud of Garuda Sadasivarao’s Dattatreya Sangita Nataka Mandali.
B. Jayashree will direct her grandfather Gubbi Veeranna’s successful production Sadarame and will herself don the role of Kalla, synonymous with Veeranna, the single-most famous figure in Company Theatre.
The Festival opens with Theatre and Television Associates (New Delhi) performing Amal Allana’s “Nati Binodini” (in Hindi), which has been praised for its exquisitely devised use of five female actors to represent the protagonist Binodini, the multiplicity enhancing the pace of the play and its visual interest.
Theatre Academy, Pune will present Satish Alekar’s “Begum Barve,” a powerfully haunting play, in which dreams and fantasy inevitably turn into nightmares while Bharat Natya Samshodhan Mandir’s production “Katiaar Kaaljaat Ghusli” musically narrates the rivalry between two classical music gharanas.
Ranga Shankara is delighted to present to Bangalore audiences the magic of Surabhi Company from Andhra Pradesh (established in 1885) with their acclaimed mythological, “Maya Bazaar” known for its spectacular special effects on stage including the descent of Narada on Earth and flying ladoos that land in the mouth of the hungry Ghatodgaja!
The Journey of Kannada Sangeet Natak through its Music will narrate the history of 70 years of the Kannada theatre through its music. Conceptualised and directed by Y.K. Muddukrishna, the musical will feature singers from the Company tradition with music by the veteran R. Paramasivaiah.

Three doyens of the Company era will return to the stage at this year’s festival. R.Nagarathnamma, Master Hirannaiah and Sarita Joshi present an evening of powerful solo performances from their heydays.

Fest ‘08 will mark the second edition of a very special Ancillary Program, Ranga Shankara’s Theatre and Arts Appreciation Course, spearheaded this year by the renowned culture critic Sadanand Menon. Spread over six days during Fest ‘08, the Course will examine and discuss theatre, cinema, dance, photography and music through lectures, film screenings, plays, as well as interaction with directors and actors.

As part of its continuing efforts to make photography an integral part of theatre, Ranga Shankara is mounting a visual narrative of the Golden Period of Indian Theatre with rare archival photographs of Company Nataka in Karnataka, Sangeet Natak in Maharashtra, Parsi Theatre and Bengal Theatre.

A series of films will showcase public and travelling theatre from across the country and the world.

Tickets: At Ranga Shankara and on www.bookmyshow.com.

31 October- 2 November 2008 & 7-9 November 2008 (Six days) Facilitated by Sadanand Menon

The Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival ‘08 will include the second edition of its very successful Theatre and Arts Appreciation Course, designed on the lines of the well-known Culture Course at Neenasam, Heggodu.

The Course, launched at the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival ‘07, provides a unique opportunity to learn the essence of theatre and arts appreciation by developing new ways “seeing and listening”. Last year’s course was a resounding success, with participants from various walks of life – from students to professors, software professionals to bankers – participating enthusiastically in the highly interactive sessions. The likes of Satyadev Dubey, Girish Karnad, UR Anantamurthy, Ratan Thiyam, KV Akshara and Prakash Belwadi spent time with the participants discussing their craft.

Renowned culture critic Sadanand Menon will spearhead the Theatre and Arts Appreciation Course ‘08. A well-known writer on critical issues of politics and culture, Sadanand Menon is also a photographer and stage light designer. He has served as the Arts Editor for The Economic Times.

The Course will examine and discuss theatre, cinema, dance, photography and music over six days (spread over two weekends during Rs Fest ‘08) through lectures, film screenings, plays, as well as interaction with directors and actors. The Course will thus look at, and analyse the formal structures of various works of art as well as consider them in the context of the historical period and cultural framework in which they were produced.

The course fee is Rs. 2000 (for six days; the fee includes lectures, film screenings and tickets to plays). A discount of Rs.1000 is being offered to students.

Application available at Ranga Shankara. Please visit the theatre, call on 26493982 or write to us on rsfest08@gmail.com Last date for registration is 20 October 2008.

Details of the Course

Dates of the Course
(6 days) 31 Oct to 2 Nov AND 7 Nov – 9 Nov (9.30 am – 6.00 pm on all days)
Course Fee Rs. 2000; Student discount of Rs. 1000 offered.
Venue Will be in and around Ranga Shankara; Will be communicated later
Medium of instruction English
Last day for applying 20 October 2008
Mode of application Please send your resume to rsfest08@gmail.com. Ranga Shankara will get in touch with you to confirm your registration.
Registrations are also open at Ranga Shankara (36/2, 8th Cross, JP Nagar II Phase, Bangalore 78; from 9.30 am – 6.00 pm, Tuesday-Sunday) till 20 October 2008
Contact Ranga Shankara office, 26493982

Are bomb-scares, traffic jams and share-crash making you feel low? Then head for Rangashankara on 14^th or 15^th for a good dose of wholesome laughter. Kriyative Theatre is presenting the 51^st and 52^nd shows of ‘Heegadre Hege?’, one of the most popular comedies to have gone on stage in recent years. Based on the writings of well known Kannada humourist, T.Sunandamma, the play is scripted by K.Y.Narayana Swamy and directed by Pramod Shiggaon. The performers are noted theatre and television artistes, Sunder and Laxmi Chandrashekar. With Gajanana Naik‘s catchy tunes and Muddanna Rattihalli‘s brilliant lighting, ‘Heegadre Hege?‘ has everything one can ask for in a play.

Tickets, priced at Rs. 50 are available at the venue in advance. For more details contact Kriyative Theatre on 26719911.,

To buy tickets online, visit  www.indianstage.in or SMS ‘TICKET’ to 9986016207.