“Muhnochini”: Wrestling With Feminine Forces
The quiet drone of a tanpura marks the meditative beginnings of a new solo performance that opened...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 25th Nov 2018 | Devised Theatre, India, Review, Theatre and Gender
The quiet drone of a tanpura marks the meditative beginnings of a new solo performance that opened...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 18th Nov 2018 | Adaptation, Directing, India
The prolific theatremaker Faezeh Jalali has once again emerged from a strenuous and demanding...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 13th Nov 2018 | Applied Theatre, Festivals, India, Review
“The Stage in the Drawing-Room” is the title of a 19th-century instruction manual by Henry Dakin...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 23rd Oct 2018 | India, Review
This weekend see a play about the Internet age with Orwellian subtexts and an experimental...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 8th Oct 2018 | India, News, Playwriting
Now well into its fourth decade, the rip-roaring Malwani comedy, Vastraharan rolls on. The...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 26th Sep 2018 | India, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, Theatre and Gender
The characteristic middle-of-the-road sensibility of Akvarious Productions has found an outlet in...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 20th Sep 2018 | Essay, India
It’s a little over a month into mobile theatre season in Assam, and a surplus of professional...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 5th Sep 2018 | India, News, Playwriting, United States of America, Worldwide
While tributes to the American screenwriter and playwright Neil Simon, who passed away at the age...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 23rd Aug 2018 | India, Interview, Japan, Transcultural Collaborations
Passing through Mumbai last week was Japanese composer Yasuhiro Morinaga. Arts aficionados in...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 22nd Aug 2018 | Festivals, India, News, Playwriting
The second edition of the Sanchita Manch fest will feature three new original plays Entering its...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 13th Aug 2018 | India, Review, Theatre and Film
The dark horse at this year’s Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards was the Natak Company’s Item,...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 31st Jul 2018 | India, News, Playwriting
One of the great subcontinental migrations, and one that has arguably been slowly erased from...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 24th Jul 2018 | Festivals, India, Poland, Review, Theatre and Politics
In one of Kraków’s many open-air spaces, the orchestral strains of Muhammad Iqbal’s Sare Jahan Se...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 9th Jul 2018 | Adaptation, India, News
The fourth edition of Aadyam premieres with Atul Kumar’s crime extravaganza—Detective Nau Do...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 28th Jun 2018 | Festivals, India, News, Theatre for Young Audiences
Every Sunday this month, Andheri’s coziest tucked-away spaces—Harkat Studios—has been dedicated to...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Jun 2018 | India, LGBTQ+ Theatre, London, Review, United Kingdom
In his play, Contempt, queer activist and lawyer Danish Sheikh draws parallels (or contrasts)...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 4th Jun 2018 | India, News, Puppetry, Theatre for Young Audiences
Bengaluru-based Sandbox Collective is in town with two unmissable productions. A rib-tickling play...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 23rd May 2018 | Adaptation, India, Translation
The Bard’s tale on the machinations of Denmark’s royal family remains his most influential plays...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 9th May 2018 | Festivals, India, Review
More than a dozen years after it first opened in Mumbai, as part of a Heisnam Kanhailal...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 6th May 2018 | India, Playwriting, Review, South Africa, Theatre and Gender
At a staging in Kerala in January, Sara Matchett’s Walk: South Africa proved to be a harrowing but...
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