Hatt Teri Kismat – Play

	My Theatre Cafe presents, Udaan’s Hindi Play “Hatt Teri Kismat”. It is a political satire. Story starts when a corrupted chief minister meets “aam aadmi” (normal civilian), during the course of discussion chief minister reveals how difficult is politics all about and “aam aadmi” reveals how difficult is life of normal civilian in our nation. Story takes a U-turn, when gathering of aggressive people come towards chief minister, before he figure it out the purpose of crfowd, he insist “aam aadmi” to change the cloths to get away from crowd. But by fate of destiny while changing their cloths, their faces got changed too and then play continues completely unpredictable till end.  Original Marathi Writer: Vijay Tendulkar Translated by: Vasant Deo.
	Directed by: Sunil Chandurkar  For more information login to www.indianstage.in or call 9880036611/+91 80 4206 4969 Date :24th Apr, 2011 | 7:30 PM Venue: Lamakaan Opposite GVK Mall Banjara Hills Hyderabad

“April Fool” – One Act Play

My Theatre cafe presents, Udaan’s one act Hindi Play “April Fool”. It is a story of 4 friends who are staying at hostel and 3 of them played a “April Fool” prank on fourth friend, Ajay. As story unfolds their prank transformed into big identity crises for Ajay who had brought up by his father in an unhealthy and tortured environment. Play takes a turn from prank to pin drop silence when Ajay start talking his unspoken thoughts.  Original Marathi Writer: Yogesh Soman Translated by: Saurabh Gharipurikar
Directed by: Saurabh Gharipurikar  For more details login to www.indianstage.in or call 9880036611/  +91 80 4206 4969 Date and Time : 22nd Apr, 2011 | 7:30 PM Venue : Lamakaan Opposite GVK Mall Banjara Hills Hyderabad

Dr.Balamuralikrishna – Grand Classical Concert

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna is a Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and a playback singer. He is also acclaimed as a poet, composer and respected for his knowledge of Carnatic Music. Balamuralikrishna started his career at a very young age. Till date, he has given over 25000 concerts worldwide! His immense versatility in all the fields of music, his mesmerizing voice, his unique way of rendering the compositions helped him to carve out a niche in the Music era. He collaborated with the top musicians in the Hindustani circle and is known to be the first to start the jugulbandi type of concerts. The first of such kind was in Mumbai, where he accompanied Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. He also gave jugalbandi concerts with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and Kishori Amonkar, among others. These concerts made him popular throughout the country and also helped in national integration through music. Poet composer and musicologist, Balamuralikrishna has restored the trinity’s composition to their original whole. he represents a new era in Carnatic music. Like the galaxy of giants preceding him, he has helped in the preservation of the musical heritage in his own way. He is also known for popularising the Compositions of Sri Bhadrachala Ramadasa and Sri Annamacharya. For more details login to www.indianstage.in/or call 9880036611/ +91 80 4206 4969

 

The 39 Steps – Play

An award winning play, that is one of the more recent shows to successfully run at Broadway and West End, The 39 Steps has 4 actors playing 140 roles over one and a half hours! In an absolute masterpiece of visual humor and comic timing, the play sees the entire film ‘The 39 Steps’ performed nearly verbatim onstage. The film’s serious spy story is played mainly for laughs, and the script is full of allusions to other Hitchcock films, including Rear Window and Psycho. This is perhaps the ultimate spoof espionage thriller! Date: 8 April- 10 April, 2011 Venue: RangaShankara For more information login into www.indianstage.in or call 9880036611 /+91 80 4206 4969
	Directed by: Bhargav Ramakrishnan

Coldplayer (UK) – the World’s Best Celebration to Coldplay

 

Little can be said about Coldplay that isn’t already understood by the people who follow and idolize the band worldwide. They are one of the biggest and best selling bands on the planet, and have won countless awards to date.

Their deep, powerful live performances leave audiences spellbound. You can now experience their music and performance as close as it gets, totally live in a show experience dedicated to the recreation of one of the greatest bands in the world!!

A celebration to some of the most beautiful songs of all time, four fans of COLDPLAY who are also professional musicians came together to capture the sheer spell binding atmosphere that every COLDPLAY fan has experienced, seeing them perform live.

Don’t just close your eyes and think they sound like COLDPLAY, open them and they even look like COLDPLAY!

In Celebration of Coldplay’s fantastic music – Gigbox is proud to present COLDPLAYER (UK) and bring the Coldplay Ultimate Show to Bangalore, April 03rd. Be a part of the Celebration!

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Draupadi- Will her spirit live on?

Centuries have gone by since the Mahabharata war; yet Draupadi is still here. Stuck between heaven and earth, roaming the streets and pondering her fate and her choices. Her only confidante is Lord Krishna. She tries to resolve with him why women must continue to suffer as she had in the past.

Krishna, the orchestrator of fate, leads her to Maaya- a woman of today, who has suffered much abuse at the hands of society. A distraught Maaya attempts suicide, but Draupadi stops her and offers her help in return for a favor.

Maaya treads through her life in Draupadi’s footsteps, and in the end she too must make a choice- will she choose revenge or resilience? Will she be Draupadi’s salvation? Will Krishna be able to address centuries old smoldering wounds?

Re-looking once again at the most misunderstood Nayika from the Indian Epics…

Watch DRAUPADI, a play in English by ex model Shivani Wazir Pasrich, interweaving tales from the epic past with contemporary Indian life will be staged for the first time in Bangalore on January 16 at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall

The play jointly directed by Shivani Wazir Pasrich and Tina Johnson (of South Africa) is set to be both a poetic piece of drama and a truly dazzling affair. Some of India’s foremost names in the arts have joined together to create a wonderful spectacle, with Ritu Kumar designing costumes, Aman Nathconceptualizing the set design, Anjolie Ela Menon’s intense painting being the signature of the play, and Shubha Mudgal lending her wonderful voice to the production.

IndianStage is proud to present to all  its theatre lovers  DRAUPADI- Will her spirit live on?

Date: Jan 16

Venue: Chowdaiah Memorial Hall

Timing: Two shows: 3.30 PM and 7.30 PM

Ticket rates: 300, 600, 1000

Event Details: http://www.indianstage.in/events/draupadi.html

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Article inputs from: mumbaitheatreguide.com

The 39 Steps- Review

Alfred Hitchcock fans here’s some goodnews, IndianStage in collaboration with Evam Entertainment brings you The 39 steps, a Broadway adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock thriller. This production is a run away hit at Broadway and the West End, and this festive season The 39 steps premiers in Bangalore, at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall.

It is an absolute masterpiece of visual humour and comic timing, a fantastic treat to all Hitchcock lovers.

Highlight: 4 actors play 150 roles in one and a half hours

Event Details: Date: 25 & 26 December

Venue: Chowdaiah Memorial Hall

Tickets: www.indianstage.in

Link: http://www.indianstage.in/EventDetails.do?eventId=1297

Here’s a Hindustan Times review on The 39 Steps play that happened in Chennai

Theatre Review: ‘The 39 Steps’

It is difficult to imagine Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The 39 Steps’ clothed in sheer humour, but that is precisely what the theatre group, Evam, and the television house, Radaan, did recently in Chennai. Based on Patrick Barlow’s stage adaptation of John Buchan’s 1915 novel and Hitchcock’s 1935 film, the

play thrilled and tickled audiences. Wittily narrating a spy story set in pre-war England is no mean task, but the Chennai production managed that admirably.

Just premiering in India, “The 39 Steps” was first performed at Broadway and West End in mid-2000. Four actors roll in and out of nearly 140 parts. Sunil Vishnu and T.M. Karthik Srinivasan portray a mindboggling number of characters, including inanimate. They become lakes, vines, creepers, trees and bushes, when they are not policemen, rail passengers, newspaper boys or evil men brandishing guns. And the two actors get this right, sometimes simply by changing their hats, as we saw in a scene on a train. A large toy-train is pushed along the edge of the stage, while the actors behind it sway to and fro to the hooting of the steam engine all to convey – sometimes dramatically – the setting.

There are more such moments of imagination, so necessary in a theatrical adaptation. Most props were on wheels, and door-frames were moved around to indicate a million situations. Actors would be inside warm indoors when the frames decide to walk away leaving the men shivering in cold. Window frames did even better. They helped actors escape.  Sometime they would slip the frames over their heads and step out of them to run away from danger and disaster!

Renu Abraham plays three women, all getting romantically involved with the hero of the story, Richard Hannay, splendidly enacted by Navin Balachandran. Unlike the others, he does not have multiple roles, but that did not take away the fact that he was just as marvellous. It was a delight to watch him as the innocent man caught in a web of deceit and crime. Unwittingly involved in a plot to steal British military secrets, Hannay’s run-for-his life - chased by cops and spies, seduced by pretty women and nearly killed by a bullet – grips your attention.

Perfect timing, great lighting and wonderful music topped by exceptional acting made ‘The 39 Steps’ truly great theatre.

Courtesy:

Hindustan Times

Gautaman Bhaskaran

Chennai, November 14, 2010

Naseeruddin Shah walks on the Indianstage

A lazy wintry evening. Coffee House in Hazratganj, Lucknow. Two of Junoon’s actors discuss essentials of life. They concur that they should “do theatre together”. That was 1977. Thirty-two years since then, Naseeruddin Shah and Benjamin Gilani have a big reason to celebrate. Their Motley theatre group completes 30 years and continues to be the forerunner among Indian theatre groups.  They have performed solo plays like Julius ceasar, Katha collage etc.

Theatre is a stimulating experience, believes Mr. Shah and it has taught him a great deal. Inspired by Jerzy Grotowski concept of poor theater, that said poverty of resources should be our strength and defined ideal theatre as one actor, one audience, Naseer has began to gravitate towards this type of theater . Ismat apa ke naam is one such product.

Ismat apa ke naam stories are monologue based and the audience is captivated by a solo performer on stage. Ismat apa ke naam is based on the stories written by the famous Urdu writer Ismat Khanum Chughtai and is highly acclaimed.  It is one of those plays that cannot be missed.

Gear up this December as we bring you the man himself Naseeruddin Shah at your door step. It gives Indianstage immense pleasure to join hands with the legendary Naseer saab to present to you ‘ISMAT APA KE NAAM’.

Event details: Log on to www.IndianStage.in

http://www.indianstage.in/events/ismat_apa_ke_naam.html

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life!

How much will you pay to get abused? Who is the greatest unheard-of music composer of all time ? Have you ever spotted camels with numbers? Hav you ever comuniated in a higher register? Do you think these questions are weird or better still do you want to know the answers to these questions? Welcome to the world of such weird and colorful characters! Get ready for the ride of your life!

The show is presented in the form of small playlets with choreographed set change to foot tapping music- and has been created to remind us all that the world is a jolly good place, and come what may, one MUST Always Look on the Bright Side of Life! If you are looking for pure entertainment and relaxation- this is where your search ends and fun begins!    TICKETS AVAILABLE  AT www.indianstage.in  CONTACTNO:9986016207          VENUE:RANGASHANKARA   DATE & TIMINGS: 13TH &14TH JANUARY2009  7:30PM TO 9:30PM