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Play: Miss Sadarame – Kannada
At: Rangashankara
On : 04-jul-2008
Eminent theatre person K.V.Subbanna improvised the story of Sadarame as Miss. Sadarame, which was originally scripted by Bellave Narahari Shastry.
Amateur Theatre Group Samashti’s experiment on Sadarame is cleverly plotted and even different from the original story. The story revolves around an innocent middle class girl Sadarame, where a prince got attracted to her and wants to marry her, sacrificed his kingdom to his greedy father-in-law and left the kingdom bankrupt along with the newly wed Sadarame. Unknown to the new world, Sadarame was exposed to difficult circumstances from the cunning travelers of the story. By her extravagant intelligence Sadarame managed to escape from all troubles and finally remains as Miss. Sadarame.
The journey of the story is quite crazy and humorous, criticizing the present social situations.
July 2nd, 2008
Butter and Mashed Banana at Rangashankara on the 25th and 26th June at 7: 30 PM and at Grasshopper(limited to 70 people only) on the 29th June at 7 PM–call : 9845602265 to telebook.
Butter and Mashed Banana is the winner of five thespo awards and has been invited to several prestigious theatre festivals. It has performed at the PRITHVI Theatre Festival and the Kala Ghoda Theatre Festival in Mumbai, at the HINDU Theatre Festival in Chennai and Hyderabad and at the Open Space Festival in Pune.
June 20th, 2008
Lucknow ’76, a play set across 100 hundred years of Indian history, from 1876 to 1976, returns to Rangashankara on 18th May (3:30 pm & 7:30 pm).
Directed by Abhishek Majumdar and devised by an ensemble of actors the play looks at the lives of common people in the historic city of Lucknow in 1876, when Queen Victoria had taken over from the East India Company as the empress of India and in 1976 when Indira Gandhi had imposed press censorship as part of the national emergency.
Lucknow ’76 moves between these two time frames and looks at the effects that history has on common people. The play has been supported by the British Library in London for its research and by Kathalaya in Bangalore for its making. This production is also supported by Black Coffee Productions, who are an established theatre company in the
city.
Lucknow ’76 is in aid of Concern India Foundation, a non-profit public charitable trust which was started in 1991 with the objective of ‘Helping People Help Themselves’. The aim of the foundation is to help make every underprivileged individual self-reliant, creating a society of independent people living with dignity.
For telebookings please call 9900133287
Play review in The Hindu:
www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/05/stories/2008030550710400.htm
Venue & Date:
Rangashankara, JP Nagar
18th May – Sunday: 3.30 PM and 7.30 PM
May 16th, 2008
Lucknow ’76, a play set across 100 hundred years of Indian history, from 1876 to 1976, returns to Rangashankara on 18th May (3:30 pm & 7:30 pm).
Directed by Abhishek Majumdar and devised by an ensemble of actors the play looks at the lives of common people in the historic city of Lucknow in 1876, when Queen Victoria had taken over from the East India Company as the empress of India and in 1976 when Indira Gandhi had imposed press censorship as part of the national emergency.
Lucknow ’76 moves between these two time frames and looks at the effects that history has on common people. The play has been supported by the British Library in London for its research and by Kathalaya in Bangalore for its making. This production is also supported by Black Coffee Productions, who are an established theatre company in the
city.
Lucknow ’76 is in aid of Concern India Foundation, a non-profit public charitable trust which was started in 1991 with the objective of ‘Helping People Help Themselves’. The aim of the foundation is to help make every underprivileged individual self-reliant, creating a society of independent people living with dignity.
For telebookings please call 9900133287
Play review in The Hindu:
www.hindu.com/mp/2008/03/05/stories/2008030550710400.htm
Venue & Date:
Rangashankara, JP Nagar
18th May – Sunday: 3.30 PM and 7.30 PM
May 16th, 2008
PERCH ( A performance collective from Madras) presents to you, AN ENGLISH PLAY – SANGATHI ARINHYA! (HAVE YOU HEARD! ) AT RANGASHANKARA, from 22nd – 27th april 08.
This play is a part of the ” Under the Mangosteen Tree festival” ,
which celebrates the centennary year of the aclaimed writer, ‘Vaikom
Muhammad Basheer”. Having performed in Madras, in Jan 08, to about
8500 audiences, PERCH brings down The english play – SANGATHI
ARINHYA !
( HAVE YOU HEARD !), alongwith a photo exhibition of rare archival
photographs of Basheer, – “Portraits of the Sultan”, and Moplah
cuisine served at the rangashankara cafe.
Details :
ENGLISH PLAY : SANGATHI ARINHYA! (HAVE YOU HEARD!)
22nd -27th april 08
22 – 25th – 730 pm
26 & 27 th – 330 pm & 730 pm
Tickets at rs 100/- Available at Landmark (forum mall), Blossom book
house (church st), Rangashankara
Call PERCH for bookings at 9945108610 / 9845602265
Do check out www.perch.co.in and www.collective-perch.blogspot.com
April 16th, 2008
The Mayo Alumni Association of Southern India
presents
a
FIRST CITY THEATRE FOUNDATION
production
TWO PLAYS
MOUSE & POSITIONS
written and directed by Neel Chaudhuri
7:30 pm | 4-Apr-2008 and 5-Apr-2008 | Rangashankara
tickets available at venue
ABOUT THE FIRST CITY THEATRE FOUNDATION
The First City Theatre Foundation was set up by First City, Delhi’s city magazine, to produce and promote quality theatre in Delhi, and to encourage the development of innovative and original work on stage. Apart from staging full-fledged productions, The First City Theatre Foundation holds regular play readings, alternative performances and workshops through the calendar year, with the aim of revitalising theatre in the city.
ABOUT THE PLAYS
MOUSE is about a play in waiting. A young director readies her actor for the first performance of an idiosyncratic play. In the course of last minute revisions they struggle between her anxieties and his diffidence, making us wonder why this uncanny duo even came together in the first place. Mouse throws a torch light on the insecurities of the artist – the smallest, weakest artist. It is a play that observes our little ambitions in their most monstrous proportions.
POSITIONS is a collection of six vignettes or ‘stolen moments’ involving the interactions of a miscellany of characters. It has been developed over two years through a series of improvisations, workshops and two separate productions. The stories explore the nature of storytelling in theatre – plot, narrative and convention – with a sense of adventure. How we begin and end a story rarely changes. It is what we do in between and how that counts.
Excerpt from reviews:
” The strength of [Mouse] is the dialogue … This is not a play with a social message or with reformist ambitions and it doesn’t apologise for that. Rife with subtle satire it exposes the loftiness of directors’ ambitions, their timid insecurities and their unreal expectations of actors … The wit evokes Bernard Shaw. It uses his wry sarcasm but adds modern irony.” Nandini Nair, The Hindu
” The sort of storytelling that ‘Positions’ favours, with its long silences, garbled and often nonsensical dialogue, and quiet and accidental humour, should become the ‘stuff’ of this new breed of storytellers ŠEach vignette breathes a new sense of potential; if this is the future of Delhi theatre (and it must be), they might be on to something quite special.” Pratap Ramanathan
March 27th, 2008
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Oct 11 Wednesday Swapnasandhani Presents BANKUBABUR BANDHU
Director: Koushik Sen
Language: Bengali
Time: 3.30 pm and 7:30 pm
BANKUBABUR BANDHU
Story: Satyajit Ray (Adapted by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay)
Duration: 45 mins
Cast: Subhasis Sengupta, Riddhi Sen, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Sumanta Roy, Susanta Banerjee, Rabindranath Jana, Samir Pailan, and Kamal Paul
Band: Animesh Bhaduri, Sreejit, Krishnau Nag, Amit Bhattacharya, Shubhankar Banerjee, Susmit Chatterjee, Sandip Chatterjee, Kanchan Mullick
Set Design: Sanchayan Ghosh
Lighting Design: Ashok Pramanik
Lights: Dipankar Dey, Brindaban Das, Rinku Paul
Costumes: Reshmi Sen
Make-up: Mohd Ali
Synopsis
Bankubabur Bandhu tells the tale of the timid, polite, non-interfering Bankubehari Dutta who befriends a creature from the planet Cranius, Mr.Ang. Dutta, a schoolteacher in a small suburban town is routinely ridiculed and made the butt of practical jokes by all his ҦriendsҬ actually toadies of Sripati-babu, an influential and rich man of the area. Banku-babu tolerates all this in the hope that one-day Sripati-babuӳ recommendation to the authorities will confirm his position in school, and his post-retirement formalities will be regularized. In an inspirational speech, Ang asks Banku-babu not to tolerate ridicule, and gives him a gadget that empowers him to control the movements of others. Ang leaves for Cranius, and Banku-Babu is a changed man, confident, sure of himself.
SAMUDRER MOUNA
Where loneliness is the absence of the enemy. The human condition: a contradiction in terms.
Story: Bishnu Dey (Adapted by Koushik Sen)
Duration: 55 mins
Cast: Kabir Suman, Kunal Padhy, Reshmi Sen, Koushik Sen, Amit Bhattacharya, Subhadeep Sarkar, Gaurab Roy, Sandip Chatterjee, Susmit Chatterjee, Krishanu Nag, Ujjwal Malakar, and Subhankar Banerjee
Set Design: Sanchayan Ghosh
Lighting Design: Ashok Pramanik
Lights: Dipankar Dey, Brindaban Das, Rinku Paul
Music: Goutam Ghosh
Sound: Jayanta Paul
Costumes: Reshmi Sen
Make-up: Mohd Ali
Synopsis
ғamudrer MounaҠis based on a story by the celebrated French writer Vercor. Bengali poet Bishnu Dey has translated the English version of the story Ҕhe Silence of the SeaҠto ғamudrer MounaҮ
Set in war-time France, the play is a sensitive story of an ageing French aristocrat and his niece, living all by themselves in their villa in a remote village, and a German officer who has taken possession of their house. A composer before he joined the ranks in the war, he has idealistic notions about a unified Europe, which are rudely shattered as he meets his compatriots in the SS and the Nazi Party headquarters, who give him a totally contrary picture as all three relearn the fact that two warring nations can never have friends among themselves.
About Swapnasandhani
Swapnasandhani was founded in 1992 and has carved a niche for itself on the theatre scene in Kolkata for consistent high quality work.
The troupe has toured the USA, the UK and Bangladesh with its plays and has performed a street play ҁmader MeyebelaҠas part of a UNESCO project.
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