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Showing posts with label theatre reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre reviews. Show all posts
7 February 2018

Recasting Tagore

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My review of the play Her Letters : Qissa Kothi's Hindi adaptation of Tagore's story 'Streer Patra' Indian artists ...
25 February 2017

Manly Women, Womanly Men

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My Mirror column, on Akshayambara and Harikatha Prasanga : A new play and a new film step into the world of Yakshagana performers to sha...
6 May 2013

Theatre: The Winter's Tale

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Two theatre directors add a bit of sparkle (and some masala) to a Shakespearean gem. When Anirudh Nair first approached Neel Chaudhuri...
5 March 2012

A Report on the 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav

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A still from  Insha ka Intezaar , a Pakistani adaptation of  Waiting for Godot This year’s festival of theatre at the National School o...
20 January 2012

Musical Vowels, Staged Consonants: Stories in a Song

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My review of Sunil Shanbag's marvellous play, published in the new Kolkata-based performing arts magazine, Avantika. We’re used t...
12 March 2011

WHY INDIAN THEATRE NEEDS META

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A still from Akvarious Productions' The Interview It’s garnered immense goodwill over the years among the theatre fraternity. But what ...
18 October 2010

Theatre Review: Nati Binodini

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Nati Binodini is an ambitious play. It aims at being much more than a biography of the nineteenth-century Bengali prostitute who achie...
5 December 2008

Court Martial

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Swadesh Deepak’s 1970s play about caste in the army remains as searing as ever, finds Trisha Gupta In the true tradition of the courtroom d...
30 September 2008

Theatre Review: Tyagpatra

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Rajinder Nath's theatrical adaptation of Jainendra's novel  Tyagpatra : my review. Tyagpatra is based on Jainendra Kumar’s class...
6 August 2008

Maulana Azad: Theatre Review

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M Sayeed Alam’s dramatic monologue is not an easy play to sit through. It’s a solo ...

Theatre Review: Uttararamacharita

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Hindi/ Urdu, National School of Drama, June 3 & 4 In the Uttarakhanda (believed to be a later addition to the Valmiki Ramayana), Ram...

Kafka – Ek Adhyay

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Hindi/Urdu, National School of Drama, June 10 & 11, 2007 If you’re a regular theatre-goer in Delhi, you probably have Molière and Ibsen...

Aurangzeb

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Hindi, Shri Ram Centre, Sat Oct 6 & Sun Oct 7 The legendary war of succession between Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh has the kind of dramati...

Ghalib in New Delhi

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Somewhere between hell and heaven, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, great Urdu poet of the nineteenth century, meets Faiz Ahmed Faiz, great Urdu...

Pratham Parth

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Hindi Circle Theatre Company’s production of Pratham Parth is based on Buddhadeb B...

30 Days in September: Theatre review

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An Asmita production I reviewed for Time Out Delhi : One of Asmita’s many ...