“Muhnochini”: Wrestling With Feminine Forces
The quiet drone of a tanpura marks the meditative beginnings of a new solo performance that opened...
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Vikram Phukan
Dystopian Fairy Tale: Faezeh Jalali Adapts Vineet Bhalla’s Award Winning Play, “A Farming Story,” For The Mumbai Stage
The prolific theatremaker Faezeh Jalali has once again emerged from a strenuous and demanding...
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Off The Stage And Into Your Home
“The Stage in the Drawing-Room” is the title of a 19th-century instruction manual by Henry Dakin...
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Between Clouds And Comedy
This weekend see a play about the Internet age with Orwellian subtexts and an experimental...
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“Vastraharan:” Five Thousand And Counting
Now well into its fourth decade, the rip-roaring Malwani comedy, Vastraharan rolls on. The...
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Out Of The Extraordinary: Women-Centered New Plays From India
The characteristic middle-of-the-road sensibility of Akvarious Productions has found an outlet in...
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Assam’s Fascinating Theatrical Traditions
It’s a little over a month into mobile theatre season in Assam, and a surplus of professional...
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Desi Drama And Neil Simon’s Enduring Legacy
While tributes to the American screenwriter and playwright Neil Simon, who passed away at the age...
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Creating Tapestries Of Sound
Passing through Mumbai last week was Japanese composer Yasuhiro Morinaga. Arts aficionados in...
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Reviving The Lost Art Of Playwriting
The second edition of the Sanchita Manch fest will feature three new original plays Entering its...
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Drama In The World Of B-Graders: “Item” Explores Hindi Cinema’s Underbelly
The dark horse at this year’s Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards was the Natak Company’s Item,...
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Searching For The Homeland: Gerish Khemani And Akshat Nigam’s Play Explores Memory, Loss, Exile, And Roots
One of the great subcontinental migrations, and one that has arguably been slowly erased from...
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Subverting The Idea Of Nationalism
In one of Kraków’s many open-air spaces, the orchestral strains of Muhammad Iqbal’s Sare Jahan Se...
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Hitchcock Meets Indian Film Noir
The fourth edition of Aadyam premieres with Atul Kumar’s crime extravaganza—Detective Nau Do...
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New Kids On The Block
Every Sunday this month, Andheri’s coziest tucked-away spaces—Harkat Studios—has been dedicated to...
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When The Personal And Political Collide
In his play, Contempt, queer activist and lawyer Danish Sheikh draws parallels (or contrasts)...
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Catalysts Of Drama
Bengaluru-based Sandbox Collective is in town with two unmissable productions. A rib-tickling play...
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The Importance Of “Hamlet”
The Bard’s tale on the machinations of Denmark’s royal family remains his most influential plays...
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Tagore’s Enduring Political Allegory
More than a dozen years after it first opened in Mumbai, as part of a Heisnam Kanhailal...
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Battle Cries For Liberation
At a staging in Kerala in January, Sara Matchett’s Walk: South Africa proved to be a harrowing but...
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