As Divya Jagdale gets set to perform her one-woman play, revisiting an interview with her: When Divya Jagdale moved to Mumbai, it was with a secret dream to become an actress, which…
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Vijay Kenkre grew up in a home, surrounded by theatre as his parents Damu and Lalita Kenkre and aunt Sudha Karmarkar were stalwarts of Marathi theatre. “Which is why,” he says, “I decided I…
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Suspense Is The Key Alfred Hitchcock made Frederick Knott’s stage play Dial M For Murder immortal by directing a film based on it (in 1954). Vijay Kenkre has directed a Marathi stage version called A Perfect Murder…
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The Evil Within: April Satya Koushik has written and directed two plays based on mythology before – Chakravyuh and Draupadi—and his strength is clearly in his writing. Raavan Ki Ramayan is written in verse, in the kind…
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As Ila Arun starts rehearsals on her adaptation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, here’s revisiting an interview with her. Ila Arun’s life is a whirlwind of plays, films and music concerts. She…
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Cause And Impact: All four plays watched at the Prithvi Theatre Festival this year had one significant element in common, they were all about social issues that are affecting the…
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Last year, when this interview was done, Makrand Deshpande had hit a career milestone of fifty plays with a boisterous farce, Epic Gadbad. He (with his group Ansh) has subsequently…
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What they say about luck meaning being at the right place at the right time, applies to Seema Pahwa. She was at a party when Naseeruddin Shah asked her if she’d like…
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It has been over 30 years since Sushama Deshpande started performing her celebrated solo piece, Vhay, Mi Savitribai (Yes, I’m Savitribai), about the life of social reformer Savitribai Phule which has taken her to small…
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A Friend Indeed: One of the most moving moments in the stage production Mahabharat: The Epic Tale, has Duryodhan, reviled as a villain in the epic, taking up for Karan,…