Category: Theatre

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Of Mice and Men by

The Play & Director’s Note Of Mice and Men takes place during America’s Great Depression, which lasted from the stock market crash of October 1929 until 12 years later when World War II began. One result of...

Akoopar by Shri Dhruv Bhatt

The Play Akoopar is based upon the first novel in the history of Gujarati literature, which deals with the life of Maldharis and their relationship with lions, nature and the animals of Sasan Gir- the...

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,...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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 ...