How The Nirbhaya Protests Made Young Women A Symbol Of Resistance
This week marks five years since the nationwide Nirbhaya protests sparked off in the country, with...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 16th Jan 2018 | India, Review, Theatre and Gender
This week marks five years since the nationwide Nirbhaya protests sparked off in the country, with...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 10th Jan 2018 | India, Review
As the year draws to an end, Vikram Phukan lists 14 of his favorite performances from the stage....
Read MorePosted by Nita Sathyendran | 9th Jan 2018 | Australia, India, Theatre and Dance, Transcultural Collaborations
Australian theatre-person and actor Trevor Jamieson on finding parallels between Indian and...
Read MorePosted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 8th Jan 2018 | Festivals, India, News, Theatre for Young Audiences
Suffused with humor and message, the plays staged during the Tifli-International TYA Festival-2017...
Read MorePosted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 24th Dec 2017 | India, Review
Reinvigorating socially-relevant theatre, M.K. Raina’s recently-staged Kafan and Kafan Chor...
Read MorePosted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 18th Dec 2017 | Adaptation, India, Review
Kanchan Ujjal Singh’s adaptation of Amrita Pritam’s popular novel, Pinjar, does justice to the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 12th Dec 2017 | Immersive Theatre, India, Review
Earlier this year, as a whimsical Valentine’s Week Special targeted the blissfully single rather...
Read MorePosted by Shailaja Tripathi | 27th Nov 2017 | India, News
For a theatre group to survive 29 years in today’s times is a big deal. Kalayan theatre...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 26th Nov 2017 | Festivals, India, Puppetry, Review
Anurupa Roy’s contemporary retelling of the epic uses a melange of cultural influences to focus on...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 23rd Nov 2017 | Festivals, India, Review
Far from the creaky floorboards and blazing arc lamps of the makeshift prosceniums of Faridabad,...
Read MorePosted by Sebanti Sarkar | 19th Nov 2017 | India, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics
Six decades of writing, acting and directing often inspired by the changing milieu — Bengali...
Read MorePosted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 13th Nov 2017 | Festivals, India, Playwriting, Review
This year’s winner at Mohan Rakesh Samman Evam Natya Samaroh, Ghanshyam Kumar Devansh’s Hastinapur...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 7th Nov 2017 | Festivals, India
Shernaz Patel, Rahul daCunha, and Rajit Kapur continue to deftly adapt their outings to match the...
Read MorePosted by Rajdeep Konar | 6th Nov 2017 | India, Theatre and Politics
Draupadi was performed by Kalakshetra, Imphal, at Gyan Mancha, Kolkata, on 30 August 2017. Midway...
Read MorePosted by Diwan Singh Bajeli | 31st Oct 2017 | Adaptation, India, Review
Chandradasan’s adaptation of Shakuntalam, staged at the National School of Drama, had a...
Read MorePosted by S. Ravi | 30th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, India, Review, Theatre and Politics
Based on a short story of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Lokesh Jain’s Kala Sooraj Safed Sayee brings the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 29th Oct 2017 | India, Review, Theatre and Film
CRD, the recently released film directed by Kranti Kanadé, starts right off the bat with auditions...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 9th Oct 2017 | Adaptation, India
This year’s eclectic Aadyam spread can certainly not be faulted in terms of its curation. From a...
Read MorePosted by Ketaki Datta | 8th Oct 2017 | India
Nandimukh is a popular theatre-group which has kept the audience of Bengal mesmerized since the...
Read MorePosted by Vikram Phukan | 17th Sep 2017 | Festivals, India
Feminist themes, whether overt or subtextual, found expression in the plays that were showcased at...
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