Category: BETWEEN CUES: D goes to theatre

  • D Goes To Theatre: A Woman or Not to BE

    D Goes To Theatre: A Woman or Not to BE

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    Re-telling William Shakespeare’s HAMLET: Adishakti Theatre’s A Woman or Not To Be, written and directed by Vinay Kumar. “I’m expecting a funeral.” And I was feeling that, I was expecting a funeral. The first thing that Adishakti Theatre’s A Woman or Not to Be made me feel was validation for my revenge phase, against the…

  • D Goes To Theatre: Glitch in the Myth

    D Goes To Theatre: Glitch in the Myth

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    Created and performed by Anoushka Zaveri. What would anyone even faintly familiar with the Ramayana say if you told them that during their exile in the forest, Sita befriended Shurpanakha and was devastated when Ram cut off her nose?  “The universe is random, it’s man who gives meaning.”  Or that the only reason Sita wanted…

  • D Goes To Theatre: OTTAM

    D Goes To Theatre: OTTAM

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    Written and directed by Sapan Saran, produced by Tamaasha Theatre. I have a notebook with a bird and a cup on its cover, in which I handwrite quotes that I come across, and I want them to stay with me. A dialogue from Sapan Saran’s play Ottam finds itself in my ‘bird and cup diary’…