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Dear Reader,
Our website had earlier written about the folk performing
arts' group Kabir Kala Manch and about husband-wife
duo Sachin Mali and Sheetal Sathe who are
implicated by the State as alleged Maoists under the
draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Their
case is still on but they have been granted bail; Sachin
after 4 years in prison. Even as the legal machinery grinds
away, this is what the couple did and continue to do. They
stage protest theatre and song against grievous inequality,
inequity and indignity endured by the marginalised sections
of their community, Dalits in particular. Now moving away
from Kabir Kala Manch, they have set up their own
Youtube channel 'The War Beats' in
collaboration with the famous Lokshahir Sambhaji
Bhagat.
Namrata Bhingarde reports on this channel in our
Features' section.
The Company Theatre's workspace in Kamshet has opened
doors to its annual, all-night festival in celebration of
the performing arts. The festival is in collaboration with
the Bangalore-based Sandbox Collective. So if you are
inclined to have a night out, away from the bustle of the
city, the upcoming Kamshet Arts Festival will welcome
you. You will be treated to a series of performances through
the night till early dawn, and this will include the sweet
little comedy DALAN by Natak Company,
QUISSEBAAZI by Danish Husain and Kashinath
Singh, an act by actor Satchit Puranik, among
Indian and Western musical recitals and other programmes.
RSVP is required.
We have updated our website with new plays in Marathi and in
Gujarati that includes the Pune-based Marathi play
SAMAJSWASTHYA, written by Ajit Dalvi and
directed by Atul Pethe. The play is based on social
activist and reformer Raghunath Dhondo Karve, who
started the first birth control clinic in Mumbai in the
1920s and faced much opposition and ostracism for the same.
The play will be staged in Mumbai next weekend.
Cheers,
Deepa Punjani
Editor, Mumbai Theatre Guide
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