“ALARMS & EXCURSIONS” - More Plays than One
At
Rangashankara , J.P.Nagar
October 8th & 9th (Both days at 7:30 PM)
Telebooking : 9845017975 (Rs 150/Ticket)
Online Booking : www.indianstage.in
Ticket Outlets : Rangashankara, K.C Das, St. Mark’s Rd,
Blossom Book House, Church Street
On occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and the long weekend following, city vibes keeping its patrons busy with various means.
A range of Indian sarees displayed in the center of a art gallery of Chitrakala Parishat, housing an exhibition of traditional Indian sarees. Artisans and traders from various parts of the country participated to showcase their expertise and range.
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Avighna exhibits an exclusive collection of Swarovsky crystal
jewellery by Kala Ramachandran and oil paintings of Lord Ganesha
avatars by Shankuntala Jain at
88 Sankhla House,3rd Main,
Vyalikaval, Bangalore 560003
The exhibition-cum-sale will be on the 23rd and 24th August 2008, from 10.30am to 8pm
For further information, contact Indira Sankhla at
avighna88@gmail.com
or on 6567 0035/ 99809 22328
Their website is
www.avighnacollections.com
Here’s my previous posting about Avighna, when Indira started her store:
http://bangalore.metblogs.com/2007/09/20/avighnaa-new-store-for-you/
Avighna has completed nearly a year of existence now, and is growing from strength to strength, as Indira and her team work hard to bring the best of home decor to the discerning patron of arts and crafts!
I have seen “The Suit”, and “1,Madhav Baug”…and recommend them to theatregoers!
(Tickets for all plays except 1, Madhav Bagh are available at Ranga Shankara
and www.bookmyshow.com. For 1, Madhav Bagh, tickets will be sold 20 mins
before each show (25 tickets per show)
Hi,
The details of four special plays to be staged at Ranga Shankara from Aug
14th to 17th are enclosed.
*The Suit and Nagamandala, directed by Neelam Mansingh*
Contemporary Indian theatre has a few proud ambassadors. Neelam Mansingh
Chowdhary is counted among the top of them. Born and raised in the UK,
Neelam studied in National School of Drama, New Delhi and has been running a
theatre company of her own called “The Company” from Chandigarh.
Apart from being invited to all the major festivals in India, Neelam is in
the forefront of Indian theatre artistes whose work is invited abroad to
much praise and awe. She is a regular on the international theatre festival
circuit and even in countries like Japan where acceptance and
appreciation are difficult and rare.
Her plays have won praise for combining western classical writing with a
performance style grounded in Punjabi aesthetics by incorporating music,
ritualistic elements and images that endeavour to communicate as strongly as
words. Her *Nagamandala *is considered to be one of Girish Karnad’s
masterpieces and Neelam Mansingh’s *Nagamandala *is regarded as the best
production of the play.
*The Whale, by Concrete Temple Theater, New York*
Adapted by Renee Philippi and Carlo Adinolfi and directed by Renee Philippi,
*The Whale *tells the tale of Captain Ahab and his maniacal pursuit of the
ever-elusive White Whale.
* **1, Madhav Baug — presented under Ranga Shankara’s “Other Voices”***
Chetan Datar’s “1 Madhav Baug” is an intimate rendition of a mother about
her son, performed by Revathi Menon. The acclaimed actor-director from
Chennai made her debut in theatre with this piece and has travelled with it
to the Jaipur Literary Festival and Hyderabad as well. “1 Madhav Baug” is
directed by Mariam Jetpurwala. The translation is by Shanta Gokhale.
Overnight stay in tents!
Campfire to chase the flies and keep you warm!
Treks into the nearby jungle!
Learn the basics of outdoor nature photography!
Experience all the above and more on August 9th & 10th at Camp Gee Dee, Bannerghatta, Bangalore during the
PIXETRA CLUB TWO DAY CLASS IN THE OUTDOORS!
Let PIXETRA CLUB guru, Amoghavarsha, a seasoned nature photographer, teach you everything you need to know about the basics of outdoor nature photography. Check him out at
www.amoghavarsha.com
14 experts will hold lecture-demonstrations on Semmangudi’s life and music. Those who won the Talent Promotion Youth Festival, and the annual music competitions, will receive their prizes now too.
From 9.45am to 12.30 m, daily, from July 28 to August 2, technical discussions centering around the theme of Semmangudi will be held.
At the valedictory function at 10am on August 3, the Conference President, Bellary Venkateshachar, will have the title, “Sangeetha Kalaratna” conferred upon him.
Artistes of the Year awards will be given to several musicians, musicologists, and music reviewers.
For more details, contact the Samaja office:
@65 6049 2120 8643, 2661 2244.
J.B.Hubli is one artist from Karnataka who has defined his own canvas - except that the workspace here is not canvas, but veneer on wood. He has the rare ability to recognize shapes and artforms in pieces of wood that are normally discarded or recycled by saw mills.
Jayant’s favourite hunting ground is a saw mill in Mysore, where machines slice large tree trunks to manufacture plywood. In the initial part of the production run, interesting bits of wood fly off the cutting machines. These pieces are hand-picked to “assemble” a picture - bit by bit, like a jigsaw puzzle.
When you look at his work, you are truly amazed at his mastery over form, in an interplay of images that seem to spring out of nature’s visual tapestry. Jayant has showcased his works of art in most major cities and is currently planning to share his unique perspectives with art lovers in Delhi. This talented young artist is from the Mysore College of Art (CAVA) and also has some very inspiring work in oils, water-colours, charcoal and acrylic.
You can view more of his work on his website. For samples of re-sized digital images of his work, please mail him at : jbhubli@gmail.com
Venue, Gothe-Institut Bangalore @716, CMH Road witnessed an interaction with four participating artists ( photographers) who are part of the workshop that was conducted by German photographer Andrea Künzig and was designed to document the changes wrought by urbanization in Indian cities - through the lens of photographers from the South Asian region.
I went today to watch “The Final Rehearsal” by ACTor Productions, Bangalore , and came away very impressed with a theatre group that seems to have got its…er…act together, with a very talented team, led by Pawan Kumar.
The play is all about competition, winning and losing….acceptance and rejection. An actor describes his experiences, working his way up the ladder (from playing a tree in Macbeth, where he artistically sways to and fro) to finally getting the part of Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, only to lose it because when he trips over Browniel (more about this character later) he drops the actor playing Caesar…and that’s the director’s son!
The dialogue was very well-written, with that touch for the everyday phrase that is so natural when spoken. But Pawan did hurry up the diction a little, and I hope he slows it down for his next show. However, his grasp of (at least the well-known lines of) Shakespeare helped him a lot with his excellent comic timing; the spoof speech on “to act or not to act” brought the house down! And in the one or two places that Pawan did fluff the dialogue a bit, it was as if it was the Actor that was doing it; it didn’t seem out of place.
As the actor faces multiple rejections in each of the reality shows or the productions that he compromises his principles to act in, he breaks down….
One of the most impressive facets of the show was Pawan’s use of props. A chair, Browniel (I hope I have the spelling right!) Funich (”derived from Furniture”) the folding chair, is a character by himself. The Actor has a love-hate relationship with Browniel, and the sequence where the chair and he have an altercation was a great piece of theatre-gymnastics!
Also, I would not have believed earlier that one sheet of white cloth can become: the foliage of a tree,Othello’s cape, Macbeth’s witch’s robes, a soldier’s armour, Banquo’s ghost, Caesar’s shroud, the dead Caesar himself, a trumpet, an actor’s microphone, a plain bed sheet, Gandhi’s spinning mat, a ragpicker’s backpack, and the defendant’s enclosure in a court….truly innovative! Are you not intrigued about how this can be done? Pawan is certainly well-versed in stagecraft and mime.
I guess I conducted my first two “celebrity” interviews….first, Lillette Dubey and then, yesterday evening, Girish Karnad .
Both of them are very articulate people, and having organized my questions well, I got quite a lot of info about them, and wrote a curtain-raiser to go with this “reminder” post for Metblogs, to follow up for the earlier announcement of Girish Karnad’s new play, which is being staged today and tomorrow.
You can see the curtain raiser….
with my photograph of Girish, too.
Here’s another one I took of him yesterday:
This photo comes with its own funny anecdote. For the first photograph, he didn’t smile, so I said, “Just think of ‘The Wedding Album’ and smile!” At this, he looked very startled and asked, “Have you already seen the play?” “No, I said,”why?” “That’s the first line of the play!” he exclaimed. “It’s ‘Think of the wedding and smile a little!’ ”
So do go and watch the play, which promises to be intriguingly interesting! It’s at 7.30 pm both days, at Chowdiah Memorial Hall.
