Archive for the ‘Murmurings from Mumbai’

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    Shakespeare in India
    Tis Fair Play – Shakespeare in India Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkara is an important film. It did many things, right. One of them being: Omkara plonked Shakespeare and Othello right into the mindscape of mainstream Indian cinema. Curiously enough, in 1996, Sadanam Balakrishnan’s adapted Othello. It was staged by artistes from the International Centre for Kathakali,...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at January 6th, 2007 at 06:01 am
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    IF I HAD MY WAY …
    If I Had My Way … If I Had My Way, plays would have an expiry date labelled on their foreheads. If I Had My Way, I would put a cd player in the tummy of each and every actor, and I would permit him or her to talk, only, after pressing the ON button. If I Had My Way, I would have a two-minute silence before every show in order to express my sympathy with the impoverishment...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at December 29th, 2006 at 10:12 am
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    Censorship: And Theatre in India
    Nagpur. 23rd and 24th September. Three shows of the Hindi play COTTON 56, POLYESTER 84 were cancelled. The cancellation of the shows were on a technicality: improper licensing. But if that was the case how does one explain, two armoured vans, plaincloth policemen, tearing down of banners of the plays, cutting off the power supply in the auditorium, messages hurtling through...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at December 22nd, 2006 at 09:12 am
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