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    The Magic Hour
    The Black Bakhkhai
    A Terrible Beauty is Born

  
   
 
   
 
   
The Magic Hour performed by Arjun Raina and Monica Singh
A performance in magic realism through dance theatre combining two stories of William Shakespeare - 'Othello' and 'A Mid Summer Night's Dream' with scenes from Kathakali stories, the classical dance drama from Kerala, India.
KhelKali uses the elaborate costume, music, songs, dance and theatricality of Kathakali, a 16th century dance theatre form and combines it with spoken and enacted texts and scenes from Shakespeare.
Through innovative theatrical devices, KhelKali helps the audience enter into a spectacular world of medieval Indian Theatre. It uses the story of Oberon and Titania's fight over a little Indian boy in Shakespeare's 'A Mid-Summer Night's Dream' as a basis to talk about the post colonial experience.

50 years after India's independence from 200 years of British rule, the performing of Shakespeare by an Indian actor is full of potential for both personal as well as political comment. KhelKali is an exploration of these two different spaces, an attempt to combine old beauty with contemporary reality.
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