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Play It, So 17 Dances About Something

The Play It’s 2044. Janina, Jan and Janka start working on an experimental documentary. In one of the rooms of a well-maintained museum theater, while making use of some former technologies (MacBookPro, overhead projector,...

Articles / Theatre

Snake, Love and Sexuality

Ravindra Tripathi’s There are a lot of stories in Indian mythology and folklores where you find the snake or the serpent as sexual motif. Some modern plays  are also based upon it. For example...

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‘The Park’ as a metaphor

Ravindra Tripathi’s Three benches for three – yet no space – a scene from ‘The Park’ The 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsva has started with fanfare. Although the city of Delhi is freezing with  severe...

Theatre

Do you know Janusz Korczak?

Ravindra Tripathi’s A Scene from ‘Sunil Shanbaug’s Play ‘Dreams of Talim’ Sometime you hear a true story which is more dramatic than drama, more painful than Greek tragedies. Here is a story for you...

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A political play from Bolivia

Ravindra Tripathy’s EN UN SOL AMARILLO- Photo: Radoslav Pazameta-Lucasninos Cuadro We, in India, are familiar with South American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas llyosa and others. But we know very little about...

Theatre

Dreams of Talim – A Tribute to Chetan Datar

Ravindra Tripathi’s Last year in BRM (the 12th Bharat Rang Mahotsav)  when  I saw Sex, Morality and Censorship, directed by Sunil Shanbaug, I was quite impressed. And not only me, the entire  Kamani auditorium ...

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Film festival – to be or not to be

Culture Cocktail (from Mid-Day, Delhi every Wednesday) Manohar Khushalani   Film festival – to be or not to be As the 34th International Film Festival of India drew to a close it continued to...