Category: Release Dates

Dr SL Bhyrappa’s Parva will be staged in English this weekend in Bengaluru. The book is adapted for stage and directed by Prakash Belwadi. It has live music by Ravi Murur and troupe, costumes by Prasad Bidapa and sets by Shashidhar Adapa. Prakash, who is known nationally and internationally in the world of cinema and television, started...

A scene from the play | Photo Credit: special arrangement The play Murderwale Kulkarni is a typical farce with characters caught in complex, funny situations. Written by Jayant Upadhyay and directed by Santosh Pawar, the Marathi play, which will be staged in Hyderabad, has Vaibhav Mangle in the lead role of Kulkarni and Bhargavi Chirmule...

From the Kannada play Prameelarjuneeyam uses music and movements from Yakshagana, the popular folk dance form of Karnataka.   | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Puck, Oberon, Titania, Nick Bottom are names that an ardent William Shakespeare fan will recall instantly. But can one imagine these characters from his celebrated work, A Midsummer Night’s Dream becoming Ashuga,...

A still from ‘Bali: The Sacrifice’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In Girish Karnad’s Bali: The Sacrifice (the English adaptation of his 1980 Kannada play Hittina Hunja), a king is torn between his love for his Jain queen, who refuses to harm life, and his duty to his mother, who demands sacrificial rites. This gripping...

Veteran actor Kathadi Ramamurthu in Stage Creations’ Tamil play Sikkal Sivaraman. | Photo Credit: RAGU R In Stage Creations’ play Sikkal Sivaraman (story, dialogues, and direction are by S.L. Naanu), Chellappa (Naanu) decides to get his son married in a Pillayar temple to the daughter of Parameswaran (Ganapathy Shankar). Unbeknownst to Chellappa, his son secretly...

The CAUSE Foundation, Bengaluru, is a non-profit organization that is “committed to promoting local talent with profits donated to local charities (orphanages, destitute homes, animal welfare organizations and sustainable environmental ventures),” says Leila Alvares, Founder/President of the Foundation. Leila is back in Bengaluru from her getaway in Coorg, to present the annual musical production. This time...

A still from the rehearsals | Photo Credit: Special arrangement In the 1960s, Tamil writer R Chudamani captured the many shades of a woman’s lived experiences like no other. Each short story or novel was a testament to an unabashed boldness captured beautifully through her probing prose, that has for long been adapted in many...

From Project Darling by Sharanya Ramprakash | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement We all know a sassy, smart talking, hard to please, tough as nails lady — the favourite aunt, elder cousin or family friend who is far “too cool” to care about being politically correct. Well, the theatre has had its fair share them and...

I, Josef is a 45-minute immersive and thought-provoking multimedia experience | Photo Credit: Courtesy: Kaivalya Plays  Sitting in a dark room, a three-dimensional soundscape gets you to enter Josef K’s world. Armed with high-quality wireless headphones, you experience sounds as if they’re all around you — footsteps from behind, whispers from the side and the...

Prashanth Kumar Nair, founder Tahatto Theatre Group | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Two popular shows by Tahatto Theatre Group — Remember Remember and Love in the Cholera of Time have been staged in the city recently. Playwright and director of Tahatto Theatre Group, Prashanth Kumar Nair, says they were revived because of the positive reaction...