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  “Perhaps the most difficult question that we are forever left to grapple with,” begins veteran theatre artiste A. Mangai, thoughtfully pausing before continuing, “is how to end a war.” Mangai made this comment just before a preview of her new production, Stree Parvam (The Women), being presented in collaboration with the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation...

Stills from the play | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Mental health and suicide – words that can trigger fear in the heart. Yet, there may be just a handful who may not have experienced the devastation of these words. Despite there being a rise in depression and self harm, not everyone is forthcoming in talking...

Feroze MNA in the monologue | Photo Credit: special arrangement The Wisest Fool on Earth, an absurdist monologue by R Raj Rao comes to Hyderabad this weekend, enacted and directed by Feroze MNA of the Sifar theatre group. Written in the ’90s, the play tells the story of a gay man locked up in a...

A scene from the play | Photo Credit: special arrangement The significance of social media is reflected in the Marathi play, Friend Request, which serves as the backdrop to depict how four people’s lives are affectedby a friend request on Facebook. Written by Prasad Dani and directed by Kumar Sohoni, the 140-minute production has Marathi...

Stills freom the play | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Cancer brings devastation to one’s physical, emotional and financial wellbeing. The disease not only drains the patient, but also the family and caretakers, due to the long drawn treatments that stretch for years, leaving behind disastrous side effects. In Bengaluru, Karunashraya (Bangalore Hospice Trust) offers free...

For Metamorphosis workshop | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT If you are inclined towards acting but never given it a shot, here is an opportunity to join a series of bespoke theatre workshops tailored for beginners across ages. Actor Munish Sharma with 20 years of experience behind him will be conducting the workshops in the city...

Varsha portraying Gadadhar Chattopadhay in the play  Bhagavan Sri  Ramanar.  | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The lights are dim on the stage. Gadadhar Chattopadhay is ardently praying to a life-size idol of Kali for a darshan at the Dakshineshwar temple in Kolkata. When the Goddess finally appears in front of him, Gadadhar becomes ecstatic. His emotion tugs...

Operation Vijay 1971, a play about the 1971 Indo-Pak war, was staged recently at Guru Nanak college in Velachery. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT An expert was once a hobbyist — ask Maj. Gen. M. Indrabalan (retd). Towards the tail-end of his career in the army, theatre began to fascinate him. This fascination was not...

The lines between personal and professional blur, engage and intertwine at every turn of the page in Amal Allana’s biographical novel Ebrahim Alkazi: Holding Time Captive, which traces the quintessential identity of the father of modern Indian theatre . “You can’t talk of my father on a personal level alone, because his work was an...

Tiruchiyai Meeta Sundarapandiyan, a tamil play by Karpanai Kudhirai was staged at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Chennai | Photo Credit: S. R. Raghunathan Theatre Karpanai Kudhirai’s Tiruchiyai Meetta Sundarapandian is about three people, all trying to run away from their problems. After much haggling, taxi driver Sundarapandian (Rajbharath) agrees to take Mohanapriya (Subhiskha), to Tiruchi....