Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani
MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT
Girish Karnad in Conversation with Mahesh Dattani
11.00 am.
Wednesday, 21st March 2007.
Prithvi Theatre.
OPEN TO ALL. ENTRY IS FREE.
Girish Karnad’s new play FLOWERS, is based on a folktale from Chitradurga It’s about a priest whose life has become a balancing act between his passionate love for God and equally passionate love for his courtesan and is caught off his guard as one day they collide.
This dramatic monologue is produced by Ranga Shankara.
Rajit Kapur who won the national award for his performance plays the central character. The play is directed by Roysten Abel, who won the Best Play award at Edinburgh for his interpretation of Othello.
The production brings together the best of the Indian theatre professionals.
At Prithvi Theatre from the 20th March to 25th March.
Hope too see a few PFC-ites on Wednesday. Till then, VIVA!
Prithvi Theatre
Janki Kutir
Juhu Church Road
Mumbai 400 049
Box Office: 2614 9546
Fax: 2617 5775
www.prithvitheatre.org
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Thanks for this Ramu!
Prithvi does such amazing theater. I wish I was in India to watch all the plays staged there.
// Ramu
Any idea whether they are playing this at bangalore—Ranga Shankara?
thnx for the info Ramu.
Ramu, good to hear of this… hope i can make it, I’m definetely catching Flowers.. hope to see you at Prithvi, yet again.. ( we workshopped a few weeks back)
Ahh…. old memories….
Ranga Shankara… it is in my neighborhood…
JP Nagar…near the post office…
Arundhati is such amazing work…
My sister was doing so much plays there. Her group was called MASRAH I think….
Has anybody seen that Mahesh Dattani film? It was really pathetic!
I am a research scholar in IIT, mumbai and i am working on Karnad’s Flowers for my paper this term. Can somebody let me know where I can get the interview of Karnad and Dattani?
@ Sushila : Im digressing from the topic of this post but am curious to know what exactly are you studying? IIT and research studies in theatre – never come across this before…
I am a research scholar in BHU, varanasi and i am working on Karnad. Can somebody let me know where I can get the interview of Karnad and Dattani?