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Winner Dario Fo’s, “The Virtuous Burglar.”
Theatre Impresario is the newest entrant to Chennai’s rich theatre
scene. The founders, Prema Venkateswaran, Weena Pradhan, S
Radhakrishnan and Amitash Pradhan, have an objective to bridge the
gap between meaningful theatre and the horde of talent waiting to be
explored in Chennai.
Their events are theme based and part of the proceeds goes to charity.
They will also be conducting theatre workshops, short courses in
public speaking, workshops on diction and voice modulation for
children and adults.
Part of the proceeds will be donated to the National Association for
the Blind (NAB).
Dario FO is a popular and controversial playwright, actor and
director, who is internationally acclaimed for his political satires
and farces. Fo has led the field in political satire in Europe for
over thirty years. The main targets of his ideologically inspired
attacks have been capitalism, imperialism and corruption in the
Italian government. For performances outside of Italy, he wrote,
produced and directed a string of successful "bourgeois comedies"
In this play, directed by V Balakrishnan, a burglar is discovered when
the owner of the flat returns unexpectedly with his mistress. When the
owner's wife arrives, the burglar is forced to pretend that the
mistress is his wife. A profusion of spouses and lovers appear and the
burglar — apparently the only one not having an affair — is forced
into pretending to have multiple wives. Then his own wife arrives!
The production has an impressive cast comprising of Amitash Pradhan,
Sunanda Raghunathan, S Radhakrishnan, Weena Pradhan, Prema
Venkateswaran, Mohamed Yusuf and Ujwal Nair.
Music has been scored by the young Anirudh.Design and lights are by V
Balakrishnan.
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Their events are theme based and part of the proceeds goes to charity.
They will also be conducting theatre workshops, short courses in
public speaking, workshops on diction and voice modulation for
children and adults
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