A Report on the Theatre Workshop The English theatre workshop was conducted by the theatre company Tin Can. The setting—the terrace of an apartment building, was perfect because it provided a ready audience, albeit very few. This included a little girl who kept asking ‘What name?’ from her balcony in the opposite building. The rest…
Hindi Theatre Street Performance Day One New Market As soon as we arrived at Simpark in New Market and began setting up the banners and props, the two security guards present came up to us and ordered us to seek permission before performing in that space. The Seagull representative who was with us argued that…
Bolo Kya Banoge Tum is the story of a king and a slave. The king is the oppressor, the slave is the oppressed. The characters are stereotypical, and the situations, at first glance, are simple. Yet, as the students probe deeper and deeper, they are able to discover many layers and many different ways of…
MONOLOGUES BY MANJULA PADMANABHAN AND OTHER WRIRINGS G. D. BIRLA SABHAGHAR 7 JULY / 7 PM DIRECTED BY JAYANT KRIPALANI, A THEATRE PRODUCTION BY THE RED CURTAIN PRESENTED BY SEAGULL EMPIRE AND SANSKRITI SAGAR BASED ON MANJULA PADMANABHAN’S ‘HIDDEN FIRES : FOUR MONOLOGUES IN RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS IN GUJARAT‘ Hidden Fires . . .…
A play by Manjula Padmanabhan. Directed by Jayant Kripalani. Manjula Padmanabhan’s plays in English have received much attention, the daily mystery of heart-rending screams from a woman who is never seen but is in obvious pain, destroys the fabric of domesticity of a middle-class couple, divided in their response to her anguish. As the play…
