| Against all odds | 15-NOV-09 |
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| One fine day I got not one but three phone calls inviting my play to Tripura, Kolkata and Mumbai. I couldn’t believe my luck, and was jumping with excitement. After all, we do not have agents or impresarios who push our plays into various festivals. So such offers are like lotteries. I immediately rang my stage manager (SM) to get on the job, and contact artistes, buy train tickets, prepare and send technical details to the organisers, et cetera. Before I could finish, he informed me that he was already employed, and would not be able to function as my SM for the tour. That did not dampen my enthusiasm. After all, finding another SM would not be that difficult. And sure enough, I found another young theatre enthusiast ready to take on the task. It is another matter that I had to start from scratch with him, beginning with listing out the duties and responsibilities of an SM. |
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| Youth in power | 27-SEP-09 |
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| Various awards in performing arts categories felicitate young minds. |
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| A brave voice | 05-JUL-09 |
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| Theatreperson Habib Tanvir brought folk and urban face-to-face in his plays, and took the best of both. |
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| Left empty handed? | 07-JUN-09 |
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| As the election results poured in, everyone seemed exultant about the Left Front having been wiped out in the Lok Sabha, as it was made out to be a greater enemy than even the right-wing parties, coming in the way of reforms and the liberalisation agenda. It had, after all, stalled “developmental initiatives” attempted to be taken by the ruling alliance — and don’t ask whose development! Anyway, in the midst of it all what kept coming to mind was the small state of Tripura along the Bangladesh border, where I had recently attended a 10-day-long National Theatre Festival with 20 performances featuring 10 plays at two venues in two different cities, namely Agartala and Jerania. |
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| Action words | 03-MAY-09 |
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| There's plenty of performance, but not enough scholarship. |
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| Screen metaphors | 05-APR-09 |
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| Deepa Mehta's Videsh provocatively blends theatre with cinema. |
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| Song and dance | 08-MAR-09 |
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| Music makes a strong comeback in theatre productions. |
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| Reviews, anyone? | 08-FEB-09 |
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| Theatre appreciation courses can help budding critics understand the basics and find more space to write. |
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| Acting as one | 14-DEC-08 |
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| Perhaps it's time to form a united cultural front to safeguard freedoms. |
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| In Gaya, for art | 16-NOV-08 |
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| Sanjay Sahay has founded a centre that appreciates art. |
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| Public enemy | 21-SEP-08 |
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| If every line hurts someone, there will be no lines to stage. |
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| Acting principle | 24-AUG-08 |
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| NCERT has developed a new theatre syllabus for schools. |
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| Commonalities in Asian arts | 26-JUL-08 |
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| When recently I was asked to speak on Indian theatre on an Indo-Korean friendship platform, I remembered the time about 10 years ago when, after having discussed a detailed project of cultural |
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