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Dear
Readers,
Marathi playwright Achyut Vaze�s
plays alongwith his fellow contemporaries such as Satish
Alekar have been recognized for their experimentation
and their contribution to the Marathi parallel and avant
garde theatre. For our Theatre Gupshup this week, Arun
Naik, a senior theatre critic, who was also Achyut
Vaze�s classmate and friend over the years, and well-known
Marathi theatre director Vijay Kenkre speak to Vaze
about his playwriting journey and his critically acclaimed
plays such as BHOPLYA: CHAL RE BHOPLYA TUNUK TUNUK
(1970) that coincided with the beginnings of the theatre
movement at Chhabildas.
Next week, �Theatre In Motion�, a travelling theatre
festival put together by Anant Mahapatra from Orissa
begins. This festival will take place in Delhi, Mumbai and
in Kolkata. The Kolkata based theatre group Nandikar
will present two of its productions-AJNATOBASS and
ANTO ADI ANTO in Mumbai on October 5 and 6. The
Mumbai showcase of this festival will take place at the Veer
Savarkar auditorium at Shivaji Park. To find out more about
the plays in Mumbai as well as the other cities, visit our
homepage.
Early next week Gillo theatre company, which is
headed by Shaili Sathyu will present two new plays
for children. The first SHE-HE-SHEY is by
Rabindranath Tagore and has been translated into
English from the original Bengali while MIND YOUR
HEAD has been co-produced with Choiti Ghosh�s Tram
Theatre, which has been specializing in Object Theatre.
A new Gujarati play called MAHARAJ opens at Tejpal
auditorium this weekend. It has been directed by Vipul
Mehta. The cultural organization Udayan, as we
had mentioned last week, is presenting Q Theatre
Productions� (QTP) latest play A PEASANT OF EL
SALVADOR this Saturday at the Harmony hall at Nehru
Centre.
You can also read reviews of four plays which were performed
recently in Mumbai. WO LAHORE and ARJUN KA
BETA (reviewed by Astha Arora) were presented by
a Delhi-based group. Astha Arora also reviews The Company
Theatre�s production of Michael Frayn�s NOISES OFF
while SOUNDS OF SILENCE, a new play on the life
and times of Beethoven has been reviewed by Aditi
Sharma. In our Feature this week, Nalin Rai talks
about the revolutionary theatre of the versatile and
celebrated actor-director Utpal Dutt, whose twentieth
death anniversary was on August 19 this year.
Cheers,
Deepa Punjani
Editor, Mumbai Theatre Guide
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A PEASANT OF EL SALVADOR (English): A riveting,
touching and powerful story of a farmer in a country where
the sweat is salty, the feuds are bitter, but the corn is
sweet... Read
on...
SHE-HE-SHEY (English) SHE-HE-SHEY is a stage
adaptation of Tagore's book Shey (Se), a collection of
stories of extraordinary adventures... Read
on...
MIND YOUR HEAD (English): A story of
magic-realism, told with objects, music and actors!... Read
on...
HANUMAN KI RAMAYAN (Hindi): HANUMAN KI RAMAYAN is
based on an original short story by Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik,
published by Tulika books... Read
on...
MAHARAJ (Gujarati): A hunderd and fifty years
ago, a Gujarati journalist from Mumbai called Karsandas
Mulji exposed sexual scandals of a Hindu seer Maharaj
Jadunath... Read
on...
EKA KSHANAT (Marathi): The story is confined
within the four walls of a house but the inter-personal
relationships in the family are greatly... Read
on...
WO LAHORE (English): The pre- independence era in
India has been widely written about and has also been
captured on stage and in film. Atul Satya Koushik tries to
do the same with his play WO LAHORE... Read
on...
ARJUN KA BETA (Hindi): Though the play is well
written and borrows from the traditional form of
storytelling, repetitions in dialogues as well as the
scenes, mediocre performances and delayed transitions make
it look very amateurish... Read
on...
SOUNDS OF SILENCE (English): To attempt a production
based on the life of the German composer and pianist, Ludwig
Van Beethoven, is clearly a brave effort. Beethoven's short,
but incredibly eventful life has a little something for
everyone in the audience - the boy juggling his duties
towards a troubled family... Read
on...
Achyut Vaze: "Well, it began with a children�s play,
when I was in school. It was always about doing a play. It
was never about writing a play. But one could not easily
find a play to do. So the best option was to write one
yourself. Writing a play was of secondary importance at the
time and there were no good plays then. And more so, there
were no children�s plays. Sudha Karmarkar (the pioneer in
the Marathi children�s theatre movement, and Vijay Kenkre�s
aunt) was our model in those days... Read
on...
Utpal Dutt�s Revolutionary Theatre Read
on...
Parados to Stage with Tom Alter by Rangshila Read
on...
Darpan�s Theatre Acting Workshop Read
on...
The fifth Damoo Kenkre awards' function...Read
on...
Udayan Mumbai presents Q Theatre Productions' latest
play A PEASANT OF EL SALVADOR... Read
on...
Atelier Theatre's Performing Series 2013 focuses on
playwright Ramu Ramanathan... Read
on...
The Inlaks Theatre Award 2014... Read
on...
Inviting applications for re-imagining the question
of cultural infrastructure... Read
on...
3 days of the Gujarati Jalso festval in
Mumbai...Enjoy music, theatre and food... Read
on...
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"How to teach someone
that a theatre comes about first as an idea, from an
individual who has a philosophy and a passion? That a
theatre's idea is its heart and individual soul? That the
person who creates it must have the desire not only to
create work, but also to create the conditions in which that
work can live--and in which others can do it as well? How do
you teach someone to want to be a midwife as well as a
mother"
~Robert Kalfin
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