Less Can Be More In The Theatre
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Mumbai Theatre Guide
Apr 24, 2024, 11:11:30 AMApr 24
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Wednesday, 24 Apr 2024
Dear Reader,
Less Can Be More In The TheatreWhen a director has staged a massive hit like MUGHAL-E-AZAM, he is left with two choices—either go bigger, or go minimalistic.
Feroz Abbas Khan has already delivered a hit, TUMHARI AMRITA, in which the actors just sat behind tables and read letters the characters had written to each other. Nothing could be simpler, but if the actors are Shabana Azmi and Farouque Shaikh, and the writer Javed Siddiqi, then watching the play is like experiencing poetry come to life.
Not surprising then, that Feroz has picked a play to do with letters for his new production, LETTERS OF SURESH, written by Rajiv Joseph, whose Guards At The Taj has been produced in Mumbai. The play, which opens in May, stars Vir Hirani (Rajkumar Hirani's son) and Palomi Ghosh.
The New York Times critic, Alexis Soloski, commented on the play, the script of which is made up of letters, "Joseph wrote the play before the pandemic, which seems prescient. With everyone homebound and exhausted by Zoom, letter writing experienced a brief vogue. But we can see each other in person now. And as of late summer, we can see live theater, too. LETTERS OF SURESH, though, mostly withholds the pleasures of dialogue and interaction. It gives us paragraphs, signed sincerely and very truly, instead."
An interview with Feroz will be uploaded on MTG a few days later. Needless to add, the director will make the work his own, and surprise his audience, because his work has never been predictable in the past. And he promises that the actors are wonderful, so that's one more tick in favour of watching it.
"The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation."
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