Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 28 Jan 2021 - 28 Jan 2021
In the grand history of human kind, there is a constant suppression of human creativity in the background of religion and politics. These innate human skills, art and innovations have taken the back seat in the large schemes of power struggle, business, wars and blood path. Even the mid-century Europe is no exception to this. Play unveils the folklore, which might have taken place in Prague (in Present day Czech- Republic) in and around the 15th century. The play showcases the conflicts between religion, power and art of that era. With the inventions of sailing ship and new sea-routes, there was steep rise in the power of the merchants. With churches and regimes already in the long history of power struggle, this added the new dimensions to the political circumstances. In this critical situation of human history, any inventions, theories were seen as a key political gains. So all the power houses are in constant desperation to claim any new innovations. At this situation, an ordinary key-maker, Haanush, invents a new mechanical clock. The story revolve around the struggles, challenges of his and after- effects of this ground-braking innovations. The all-time relevant story of the play, does not limit itself with the political groundings, but also explores emotional and philosophical levels of human nature.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 29 Jan 2021 - 29 Jan 2021
Tempest was written by the great playwright William Shakespeare and is believed to be his last play. His inspiration from nature, the depiction of its fury, calmness and relating this trait to human turmoil and relationship is truly marvellous. Though this play has all the qualities to be called as one of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies the approach in which each character in the play tries to find his own self and personality in this world makes it that much more special. SANCHAYA, a 31-year-old Kannada amateur theatre group brings this production on stage with more than 30 people on stage. Joseph, a graduate of the prestigious NINASAM has directed it. Young music director Uttana Bharighat along with SR Ramakrishna has composed the Music. Through this 90 minutes play, the characters on stage capture the audiences with their performance. Lighting and live music, to coordinate with the artistes, is one of the highlights of the play.
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM,19.30 PM Schedule date : 30 Jan 2021 - 30 Jan 2021
At a routine exit interview on Skype, RAJU CARIAPPA from Bengaluru tells the HR person at Corporate Head Office in California that the company needs to take care of some stuff, like the incident that involved his colleagues. The casual remark results in a full blown investigation into a case of possible sexual harassment at the workplace - with weird and often hilarious twists and turns until we reach an absurd and ironical conclusion.
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM,19.30 PM Schedule date : 31 Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2021
The play Rabdi revolves around Saavantri and her mentally retarded child. Dreams of a better future for her child remain unfulfilled, yet Saavantri does not lose hope. She offers to become a surrogate mother for an IT couple in return for money to enroll her child to a special school. RABDI deals with motherhood, love, aspirations and priorities individuals make in their lives, touching upon major societal issues, solutions and trading of human emotions for personal benefits. Will Saavantri be able to give up ‘her’ second child or does her motherly love come in the way….???
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Feb
Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 02 Feb 2021 - 02 Feb 2021
An effort to understand women.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 03 Feb 2021 - 03 Feb 2021
A narrative of the SATI system and the social laws surrounding the marriage. It is about how women are not really free even though men think they are giving them equality, when giving equality' itself means there is no equality and the one has more power to grant something to the other! Women are compensated with gold and silk for taking away herself from her and her freedom, which a man never realizes. In this story, women of the village visit the samadhi(grave) of Sarasamma and offer her a coconut so that she'll solve their problem in the family between them and their husbands. There are quite a few funny incidents and are put out very well by the writer, though the situation has a very serious and practical meaning in today's society and how men think dominating women is their birthright when a woman was responsible for their own being on the planet and without her, they would not even be here to talk and treat her the way she doesn't deserve! There are also a few sensible men in the story and the photographer who goes to the well to take the picture of Sarasamma's ghost and his wife are the main characters of the story.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 04 Feb 2021 - 04 Feb 2021
Life is about small details than bigger definitions. Love, anticipation, desperation and dreams make life a well garnished experience and these smaller notes are what makes life worth living. The compilation of small stories in Vasudhendra's Mithuna, based on Telugu original by Sriramana is one such garnished experience and gives a sense of life fulfilled with these smaller elements without much pomp and glory of intellectual reasoning. Our effort with this play is a sincere try towards bringing on stage, these elements that make life beautiful, simplistic yet contented. Childhood lurings, teenage attractions, old age love and the memories these experiences leave behind in one's life is what makes the life of a common man. Our effort is to bring up these common yet special elements that make the common man's life an uncommon one.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 05 Feb 2021 - 05 Feb 2021
Life is about small details than bigger definitions. Love, anticipation, desperation and dreams make life a well garnished experience and these smaller notes are what makes life worth living. The compilation of small stories in Vasudhendra's Mithuna, based on Telugu original by Sriramana is one such garnished experience and gives a sense of life fulfilled with these smaller elements without much pomp and glory of intellectual reasoning. Our effort with this play is a sincere try towards bringing on stage, these elements that make life beautiful, simplistic yet contented. Childhood lurings, teenage attractions, old age love and the memories these experiences leave behind in one's life is what makes the life of a common man. Our effort is to bring up these common yet special elements that make the common man's life an uncommon one.
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM,19.30 PM Schedule date : 06 Feb 2021 - 06 Feb 2021
"Eclipses are one amongst creation's multiple natural events. Eclipses have occurred in the past and will continue to occur in the future as well. Similarly eclipses occur in the life of humans as well. After all, humans are a part of nature as well, aren't they? ""Kantu"", one of the best stories authored by the famous writer, Vivek Shanbhag, attempts to simultaneously look at the eclipse involving planetary motions along with the eclipse befalling humans, who are but bundles of harmony and hate. Our team, Samashti, will be staging a play based on this story with the title of the story itself. Based in the 1990s, the play tries to unravel the complexities and confusions on human life along with the creations' natural activities. Along with this, the irony of the ""Everything is for sale"" culture where men are not just ready to sell off their houses, culture and ideologies but also entire villages for money has been ridiculed. The play progresses within the boundaries of light situational humor and holds a mirror to the prominent phenomenons of the 90s vis a vis globalization, liberalization and privatization. According to the innocent inhabitants of Maavinooru, representative of most of the villages in India, theirs is the most ancient and greatest culture, art, rituals, ideologies etc. But if money is offered they are ready to sell all of these without thinking twice to the foreigners who have come to witness the eclipse. ""Kantu"" is a humourous play about the eclipse that is about to set on Maavinooru and the eclipse that has already befallen the people of Maavinooru. Enacted by Samashti, this play is a theatrical presentation of the story ""Kantu"" by the famous storyteller, Vivek Shanbhag. "
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM Schedule date : 07 Feb 2021 - 07 Feb 2021
From childhood to old age, a human life goes through various stages - physically and emotionally. A child becoming an old man or an old man becoming a child, thus completing the circle of life, is a miracle in life as each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity. Let us remember that at each stage of our life, we are protected and nurtured by nature. We ought to take the same attitude toward nurturing the human life cycle as we do toward saving environment. Be it a child or a boy or an old man, life at every stage is precious, very very precious.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 07 Feb 2021 - 07 Feb 2021
One day, Chippi, a baby lizard, while playing, is shooed away. People think it is scary and ugly. In the shock, Chippi loses her tail. And everyone starts teasing her, calling her names, as she is tailless now. She feels very sorry for herself and gets into a dark corner, crying. She knows that she has to go get a tail. So what does she do to get her tail? Will she ever get her tailback? Will she become beautiful again?
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 09 Feb 2021 - 09 Feb 2021
This is a comedy play based on an identity crisis that is set up in Bangalore in the early '80s. This play is adapted from William Shakespeare's ' Comedy of errors' and will be having the backdrop of Malleshwaram of that time. The charterers come in and experience confusion making it a laugh riot. Well, if you become me while I become you, will everything still be the same? ‘Neenanadre Naaneenena ‘ answers that question. Two people come to Bangalore to set up a business. Sarasa is waiting for her husband who has gone away after having an argument with her. Chinnaswamy gives a gold necklace to Raya to give to his wife. Dada is a local goon in Malleshwaram, who agrees to help Martandaraya who is a travel agency owner in Jayanagar to search for his son. Pede, who is Dada’s personal secretory is deaf and creates a lot of confusion. Raya loves reading suspense novels and associates everything in life with those novels that he has read. Sarala loves reading and is determined to get her sister, Sarasa’s life back on track. Ramamani is waiting for Vatapi. Shabeera, Dsoza, and Nanja are the people employed by Dada and are busy doing their Hafta collection, who are all these people and just imagine what would happen if all of these people come together.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 10 Feb 2021 - 10 Feb 2021
"How would an encounter with your favorite writer turn out to be? Akshatha is a hardcore fan of HBR - the famed feminist writer, Actor, Director & Activist. She is going through a tough phase in her personal life and reaches out to her idol seeking counsel. HBR, known for intimately portraying female sensibility and capturing the anguish and soul of a woman’s being agrees to pay her a visit. What starts off as a candid conversation soon becomes an eye opener that pushes you out of your comfort zone and makes you question the integrity of HBR. What if Akshatha's idol wants to strip off that revered image of his and yield to the bodily needs? While the events take a dramatic turn, this hard-hitting play delves into the psyche of the famed intellectuals like HBR, leaving you thinking hard and wondering about the masks that people wear. Will those who want to see the others naked, see their ego and lust set aflame when they strip themselves completely naked infront of their own conscience? This punch to the gut of a play makes you contemplate about just that."
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 11 Feb 2021 - 11 Feb 2021
Grandfather is hopelessly nearsighted. And this is a huge problem. How is he to recognise his enemies and shoot them down with this fading vision? He needs a fix quickly! Grandfather, assisted by his Grandson, visits the Ophthalmologist for a diagnosis. The Ophthalmologist just wants to write poetry but is intrigued by this strange patient. Is he able to help the Grandfather? And what exactly is the problem with his vision? Watch this hilarious play to find out more!
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 12 Feb 2021 - 12 Feb 2021
In a democratic government, the majority always denies liberty to individuals, refuses to acknowledge an individual’s right to live, thereby destroying the self-determination of an individual. This decimation of individual rights has been recorded across continents and epochs. What happens to individuals in such a tyrannical, majoritarian atmosphere? Voices are silenced. The individual’s freedom of expression is erased. Only the relentless defense of individual liberty can counter the majoritarianism of our times. It is, at this point, necessary to raise a voice against these trends, however little that voice may be. The production, "Janashatru", addresses the plight and the determination of one individual. It also attempts to underscore the importance of being an individual in times of majoritarian democracy.
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM,19.30 PM Schedule date : 13 Feb 2021 - 13 Feb 2021
In a democratic government, the majority always denies liberty to individuals, refuses to acknowledge an individual’s right to live, thereby destroying the self-determination of an individual. This decimation of individual rights has been recorded across continents and epochs. What happens to individuals in such a tyrannical, majoritarian atmosphere? Voices are silenced. The individual’s freedom of expression is erased. Only the relentless defense of individual liberty can counter the majoritarianism of our times. It is, at this point, necessary to raise a voice against these trends, however little that voice may be. The production, "Janashatru", addresses the plight and the determination of one individual. It also attempts to underscore the importance of being an individual in times of majoritarian democracy.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 16 Feb 2021 - 16 Feb 2021
Set in an atmosphere of swaying political loyalties, Mukhyamantri follows the protagonist who is intent on retaining his position through the approaching elections. The pace of the play is like a flowing river – only signifying the eternal continuance of the state of matters
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 17 Feb 2021 - 17 Feb 2021
The play 'Sankranti' was written by well-known playwright P. Lankesh. The plot involves religious and social disturbance during the 12th century due to which love between a girl and boy was breached. It includes Bijjala’s administration, social reformation by Basavanna and how this incidence caused chaos in the common man’s mind.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 18 Feb 2021 - 18 Feb 2021
Manjula Nayak is not a very successful Kannada short-story writer. She attains sudden wealth and international fame after writing a best-seller in English. The question that haunts Manjula is whether by opting for a global audience, she has betrayed her own language and identity. She now faces issues of loyalty and betrayal. And, without warning, it is her own image that decides to play confessor, psychologist and inquisitor The play explores the dilemma that is faced by Indian writers who choose to write in English, and is a scathing look at the Indian literary establishment as well as a moving story of conflict and the desire for fame. It is also one of the first plays that straddled the world of theatre and technology in Indian theatre. ‘Bikhre Bimb’ in Hindi, ‘Odakalu Bimba’ in Kannada, ‘A Heap of Broken Images’ in English, is Ranga Shankara’s first production (2005), the play opened in two different languages at the same time. Directed by Girish Karnad and K M Chaitanya and featuring Arundhati Nag, it was hailed as one of the best productions in the country in 2005. The English version ‘A Heap of Broken Images’ is performed in English by actor Arundhati Raja.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 19 Feb 2021 - 19 Feb 2021
Manjula Nayak is not a very successful Kannada short-story writer. She attains sudden wealth and international fame after writing a best-seller in English. The question that haunts Manjula is whether by opting for a global audience, she has betrayed her own language and identity. She now faces issues of loyalty and betrayal. And, without warning, it is her own image that decides to play confessor, psychologist and inquisitor The play explores the dilemma that is faced by Indian writers who choose to write in English, and is a scathing look at the Indian literary establishment as well as a moving story of conflict and the desire for fame. It is also one of the first plays that straddled the world of theatre and technology in Indian theatre. ‘Bikhre Bimb’ in Hindi, ‘Odakalu Bimba’ in Kannada, ‘A Heap of Broken Images’ in English, is Ranga Shankara’s first production (2005), the play opened in two different languages at the same time. Directed by Girish Karnad and K M Chaitanya and featuring Arundhati Nag, it was hailed as one of the best productions in the country in 2005. The English version ‘A Heap of Broken Images’ is performed in English by actor Arundhati Raja.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 20 Feb 2021 - 20 Feb 2021
One man, One throne, One crown, One hilariously tragic experience. Amidst thunder and lightning, three witches meet with Beth and Banquo, From there on Beth tries his best to live up to all the prophecies with his imaginary friend Banquo. Together they narrate this murderous tale sincerely. Welcome to a roller coaster ride in the world created by Beth and Banquo. The Tragedy of Madbeth is a highly interactive physical comedy inspired by Shakespeare's classic. A profound allegory that dissolves the space between observer and performer. The performance is a combination of slapstick, acrobatics, mime, songs, and improvisations.
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM Schedule date : 20 Feb 2021 - 20 Feb 2021
"What if the clowns start to reinterpret Kalidas's classic? Will the clowns be able to handle the pressure of 2500 year old Sanskrit text? Or will they just fool around?"
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Show Timings : 15.30 PM Schedule date : 21 Feb 2021 - 21 Feb 2021
"What if the clowns start to reinterpret Kalidas's classic? Will the clowns be able to handle the pressure of 2500 year old Sanskrit text? Or will they just fool around?"
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 21 Feb 2021 - 21 Feb 2021
One man, One throne, One crown, One hilariously tragic experience. Amidst thunder and lightning, three witches meet with Beth and Banquo, From there on Beth tries his best to live up to all the prophecies with his imaginary friend Banquo. Together they narrate this murderous tale sincerely. Welcome to a roller coaster ride in the world created by Beth and Banquo. The Tragedy of Madbeth is a highly interactive physical comedy inspired by Shakespeare's classic. A profound allegory that dissolves the space between observer and performer. The performance is a combination of slapstick, acrobatics, mime, songs, and improvisations.
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Show Timings : 19.30 PM Schedule date : 23 Feb 2021 - 23 Feb 2021
After two successful productions in Coimbatore and Bangalore, Dot Theatre returns to Rangashankara with ‘Baksa’- an interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s play, ‘Act Without Words’. 'Baksa' is a farce on a man’s struggle as he navigates this harsh and darkly comical world. A man pops out of a box into a world of question marks. Moments later, he realises that he’s trapped and the only way out is to do the things this world wants him to. The only way he can exit is by playing by rules he doesn't even know. Yet. He soon spots an exit sign. But will it be enough? Come find out with Dot Theatre’s show ‘Baksa’.
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