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"Atelier's Performing Series" aims to look at the oeuvre of an artist or a writer in its totality through performances, workshops and talks.
Indian Theatre lost two of its major theatre stalwarts in 2011: Badal Sircar and Gursharan Singh and we intend to pay tribute to the spirit of these two practitioners who integrated theatre form with social concern in such a masterly way without one dominating the other.
“Performing Sircar & Singh” is celebrating theatre of dissent in a world where the space for dissent is continuously shrinking. Having said so, the purpose of this festival is to encourage free writing and thought, which is so central to the idea of theatre, we deal with.
We plan to have workshops and talks by scholars who understand Badal Sircar and Gursharan Singh; publish a monograph on these two playwrights and perform them for public.
Venue: LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House
Performances:
August 11, 2012 (Saturday):
6.30 pm: Baaki Itihas/Hindi/90 mins
8.30 pm: Saari Raat/Hindi/80 mins
August 12, 2012 (Sunday)
6.30 pm: Saari Raat/Hindi/80 mins
8.30 pm: Baaki Itihas/Hindi/90 mins
BAAKI ITIHAS - Synopsis
Baaki Itihas, in all ways, is a story of the absurd aspects of our life.
We and our desires, on one hand; the inhuman character of our social acts and oscillating between this is the conflicting meaninglessness and the inner conflict of hope. Hope is in constant struggle with nothingness and nothingness fascinates the human mind. This creates a picturesque yet compassionless history – Baaki Itihas!
Sharad: Lalit Sharma
Vasanti: Nitika Arora
Vasu: Himanshu Mehta
Kanak 1: Pallavi Biyani
Nikhil: Himanshu Mehta
Sitanath 1: Sudhir Rana
Aagantuk: Shubham Gune
Boora: Shubham Gune
Kanak 2: Pallavi Biyani
Vijay: Himanshu Mehta
Sitanath 2: Sudhir Rana
Vidhubhushan: Vipu Pachori
Sitananth 3: Simranjeet Malhotra
SAARI RAAT - Synopsis
Saari Raat is a play about pleasure and peace.
In a very well crafted theatre piece, Badal Sircar questions if both: peace and pleasure can co-exist.
When one seeks pleasure, is he/she also inviting grief ?
An 80 minute highly dramatic performance will thrill you. Stay assured!
Stri: Pallavi Biyani
Purush: Lalit Sharma
Vradh: Himanshu Mehta
Performed by Atelier Repertory Company, India
Music: Shashank Mehra
Lights: Parnab Mukherjee
Designed & Directed by Vipul Pachori & Kuljeet Singh
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PS: Plays of Gursharan Singh will be performed in the later part of the year by Atelier Repertory Company.
Performing Tagore is a first episode of Atelier's Performing Series, which aims to look at the oeuvre of an artist or a writer in its totality through performances, workshops and talks.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tagore this year, we devoted it to Rabindranath Tagore, the magnanimous literary figure of India. It will take place in Delhi between September 1-15, 2011 at four different venues.
September 10, 2011. 7PM (Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre)
RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S HUNGRY STONES
One of Tagore’s most famous short stories is his mystical tale, `The Hungry Stones’, written in 1916. The story is narrated in a train by a man who claims to have met someone possessing deep spiritual knowledge, who shared it with him. The `odd’ gentleman in question said he experienced the supernatural when he took up his duty as a collector, in an area which used to be the site of a great raja’s palace. The history of the location started working on him, he said and the occupants of the palace, specially those of the erstwhile harem and dancing girls began appearing in his dreams. Was he experiencing a rebirth of his ancestor’s beliefs or had he been living too long by himself in his hut and was longing for the company of a woman, he wondered. Or were the visitations real? The distinction between the dream and reality begin blurring for him. Though he starts to doubt his own sanity, in a deeper way he also begins to see beneath the western rationality imposed by his education.
A Dramatised Reading, involving Multi Media. Conceived & Directed by Sohaila Kapur
Readers: Sunit Tandon & Sanjeev Desai
Dancer: Sanah Kaintura
Lights & Sound Designed By: Sohaila Kapur
Sound Operator: Pamela Prakash
A Katyayani Production
September 11, 2011. 7PM (Stein, India Habitat Centre)
Jana Natya Manch presents
Char Rang
A ‘take’ on Rabindranath Tagore’s novella Chaturanga. A play about relationships, about (ir)rationality, about the Delhi Metro, and about literature. A play that presents Tagore as never before!
Hindustani | 70 mins | no interval
Written by Sudhanva Deshpande and Brijesh
Costumes Shehla Hashmi Grewal
Original music and sound design Samar Grewal
Sound operated by Inderjit Singh
Puppets and live painting Shaaz Ahmed
Light design Praveen Vadhera and Ambrish
Designed and directed by Sudhanva Deshpande
Synopsis
A TEACHER, who teaches Tagore to her M.A. class. Her STUDENT, reading Tagore for the first time, fascinated and critical. A YOUNG MAN, who travels in the Delhi Metro on the same route as the STUDENT, drawn to her and to Tagore. An OLDER MAN, also on the Metro, strangely menacing. This is a story of four characters who start off as strangers, but find their lives intersecting and criss-crossing in unexpected ways. In the process, they also discover facets of Tagore they had never anticipated.
Director’s note
There’s something lovely about Tagore’s Chaturanga – unlike many of his better-known and grander novels, this is terse, underwritten, and full of gaps. As the Teacher puts it, Tagore challenges us to imagine what he hasn’t written. It is also a remarkably contemporary novel. Tagore’s concern with the condition of women and his disapproval of superstition and religious mumbo-jumbo became the two threads that bound the play together. At an emotional level, the novel is a story of many journeys. This suggested the form of our play, which is set in large part in the Delhi metro. We’ve also attempted to mimic Chaturanga’s form, and attempted to evolve a play that is, we hope, terse, underwritten, full of gaps.
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