Virtual Experiences In Lockdown Times
In 1971, in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance — one in which the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 6th Jul 2020 | Essay, India, Transmedia
In 1971, in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance — one in which the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 5th May 2020 | India, News, Theatre and Politics
Steadily gathering supporters online is a crowd-funding campaign that trains its specific energies...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 21st Apr 2020 | India, News, Theatre and Art
One unexpected casualty of these beleaguered times is a relatively young arts organization that...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 11th Apr 2020 | India, News, Transmedia
While it can never really supplant the vibrancy and vividness of live, in-the-flesh theatre, the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 6th Apr 2020 | Essay, India, Theatre and Art
Sudhanva Deshpande’s book, Halla Bol remembers the legendary theatremaker and activist through a...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 1st Apr 2020 | Design, Essay, India
For ensemble pieces in theatre, where actors never once leave the stage, what becomes...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 3rd Mar 2020 | Essay, India, Theatre and Politics
In the play, Colors of Trans 2.0, when the transgender performer Living Smile Vidya bares her...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 18th Feb 2020 | India, Review, Theatre and Art
For fans of the whodunit as gradually unfolding conundrum rather than mere build-up to a climactic...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 27th Jan 2020 | Acting, Essay, India
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 24th Jan 2020 | Books, India, Theatre and Politics
All India Forward Bloc architect, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his equally illustrious elder...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 20th Jan 2020 | India, News, Review
This year the stage threw up apostles of hope aplenty, whose quiet energy and presence allowed us...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 15th Dec 2019 | Festivals, India, Review
An emerging sidelight at the annual Prithvi Theatre Festival is its selection of fringe offerings...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 11th Dec 2019 | India, News, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Gender
Anubha Fatehpuria will act out a miscellany of women characters, spanning more than a century in...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 2nd Dec 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Politics
The legendary Habba Khatoun comes to life in Purva Naresh’s Zoon, a play that attempts to give...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Nov 2019 | Documentary Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Politics
Piyush Mishra’s Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter’s ideology of...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 10th Oct 2019 | India, Review
Theatremaker Sujay Saple and sound artist Mitsuaki Matsumoto’s collaboration is all about...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 29th Aug 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Gender
Patchworks Ensemble’s new play, Shikaar explores the insidious culture of instigation...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 28th Aug 2019 | Acting, India, Review
Sanhita Manch’s third edition will stage four original plays that celebrate homegrown talent in...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 20th Aug 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics
Bengaluru-based, Theatre for Change uses “choreopoems” devised from music, text, and...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 19th Aug 2019 | India, Review, Theatre and Gender
A woman peering in at the margins of a black hole waiting to be engulfed by its utter nothingness...
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