The Sense of an Audience / Keval Arora
Most discussions – and demonstrations, now that the next edition of the Bharangam is upon us – of what ails contemporary theatre rarely take into account the role of the audience. In an environment where...
Category: Performing Arts
Dabbling In Babble / Keval Arora
Tim Supple’s Production of Shakespeare’s Mid Summer Nights Dream is currently touring India. Keval Arora takes on Supple for his comments (made earlier) on Indian Theatre and multicultural collaboration. What is it about multilingualism...
The Competition Virus / Keval Arora
Who Wins ? As one bleakly contemplates the prospect of yet another theatre season at the university getting under way with the IIT Delhi festival in a couple of weeks, two comments...
For Whom Nobels Toll / Keval Arora
Harold Pinter Harold Pinter passed away on 24 December 2008. He was 78 and had been undergoing treatment for liver cancer. Like most Nobel prizes for Literature, the choice of the British playwright Harold Pinter has...
A Matter of Applause / Keval Arora
Suspense! – Will They or Won’t They? A critical difference between live and recorded performances (those in cinema or television) can be seen in the way we respond to them. Namely, in...
Parable of the Ten Virgins: Play Scripted for Nilakantan Gauri by Prema Sastri
(For permission to perform this play read the note at the bottom) (Left)Virgins in Waiting (Right)The Wedding CAST OF...
Gender Contexts in Folk Performances: A Study of the Female Performers of Nautanki / Gauri Nilakantan Mehta
Sage Viswamitra succumbs to the charms of Menaka Source: Exotic India Art Any context that involves control and exclusion, of the master subject, or the dominant individual or group of the situation,...
Let your child be what he wants to be this summer / Gouri Nilakantan
Platform for Action in Creative Theatre(PACT) and KINDERPLUME has initiated a new summer theatre workshop, Abhivyakti in the regions of Delhi and NCR. It is uniquely designed theatre workshop as it...
Theatre Review: Pagla Ghoda by Gouri Nilakantan
A scene from the play Pagla Ghoda of Badal Sircar was performed by a newly formed amateur group of Gurgaon AAKUTAM directed by Mahesh Prasad at Epicenter on the 17th of April...
Final Solutions: Untold Stories of Religious Freedom and Resentment from the Eyes of a Female / Gouri Nilakantan
Above: A poster of Dattani’s play A paper read by Gouri Nilakantan Mehta at the North American Conference of Social Philosophy at Marquette University, USA Nothing can be more painful than carrying an unseen...
