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The
Magic Hour performed by Arjun Raina and Monica
Singh |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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.
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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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The Black
Bakhkhai performed by Arjun Raina, Monica Singh
and other collaborative artists |
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A Greek
tragedy in Hindi and danced in Odissi and Kathakali.
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| A white god has come to the
town of Thebes, in rage and in a spirit of revenge.
He is exercising his awesome power to transform
the lives especially of the women of the town. |
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| The performance is set in
contemporary India and evokes and attempts to describe
the tensions and anxieties of a fast transforming
Indian social landscape. |
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| A Terrible
Beauty is Born performed by Arjun Raina |
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A play
about International Call Centers in India. Set
in both New York, USA and Gurgaon, India. |
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| This play explores a relationship
between an old American lady Elizabeth in New York
and her telephonic credit card dues collector who
she knows as John. |
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| Through this relationship
we discover this strange new world of fake accents
and identities. |
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| Right till the end of the
play Elizabeth thinks John is an American while
in reality he is Ashok Mathur calling from Gurgaon
with a fake name, accent and identity. |
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