StageBuzz presents Bharat Rang Mahotsav Daily Report from the Festival
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Choose your Plays before you buy your tiks
This year the BRM will be presenting a fare of 81 productions selected out of nearly 450 proposals received from across India and from around the world. Taking forward the ‘Young Experimenters’ component of last year, BRM 13 also includes productions by graduates of the school in a synthesis of experience, new energy and vision. We present the synopsis of all the plays so that you can pick and choose
Curtain Raiser
NSD's 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav Theatre Festival
The 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, marks the beginning of the New Year with another milestone for the prestigious National School of Drama, as its annual national and international theatre festival opened with concurrent shows at multiple venues in Mandi House over two weeks from 7 to 22 January 2011. Read More...
In This Issue StageBuzz welcomes two new writers in its fold:
Station Director, AIR, Delhi
and
Senior Film and Theatre Critic
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Arunachal Pradesh on the Theatre Map of India
Ravindra Tripathy's Daily Diary
No doubt, the Hindi language has many local dialects. But have you ever heard of Arunachali Hindi? Yes, it exists. You want to know where it is? It is in Arunachal Pradesh of course. But why is it Arunachali Hindi, it is difficult to say because it is just like standard kharibolichaste Hindi. But whatever it is, it was a nice experience to watch the play and listen to the language. Read More...
Featured Poetry by Laxmi Shanker Bajpai
Those People
Those were the people who
with tiny boxes filled with fine sugar
would go in search of anthills
They would scatter seeds on terraces
for birds to feed on.
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Snake Love & Sexuality fromJapan
Ravindra Tripathy's Daily Diary
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 Girish Karnad’s play Nagmandala. The snake as sexual motif is not limited only to India. In 13th bharat rang mahotsav, the Japanese play Ugetsu Monogatari(directed by Madoka okada) also presents the snake as a charmer and lover of human being. Read More...
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Begam ka Takiya from India orMuare from Argentina?
Ravindra Tripathy's Daily Diary
Tuesday the 11th Jan was not as cold as the previous days. The sun was in the sky and the earth was having a sigh of relief. The atmosphere in the food hub (In 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav) was a little bit warmer. Theatre fans and enthusiasts were talking about the plays being staged in different auditoriums. The question before me was whether to see `Muare’, an Argentinean play or`Begam Ka Takiya’, a Hindi play Read More...
A political play from Bolivia
Ravindra Tripathy's Daily Diary
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 of Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and other Latin- American countries. Fortunately, in 13th Bharat Rang Mahotsav there are some plays from these countries which show how lively the theatre scene is there.Read More...
Dilemma of Chau
To Be or Not To Be Folk
To categorize and delineate any dramatic performance as being folk, traditional or modern would be simply dispensing them off that can endanger our readings and interpretations for it. All dramatic performances display set codes and conventions such as costumes, makeup, text, use of diction prose or poetry and evolved choreography, movement or premeditated action. Gouri Nilakantan's attempt in this thesis is to look at Chhau as one such dramatic genre that goes beyond such simplistic compartmentalization. Read More..
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The Park
Ravindra Tripathy's Daily Diary
There are three benches in 'The Park', so there should be no problem for separate and independent spaces for them. But the problem starts when all of them want a particular bench for themselves. No one wants to leave his preferred bench. They argue and fight over their `rights’. The play starts as a comedy but slowly and gradually it becomes serious. Read More...