National School of Drama has been organizing “Bharath Rangmahotsav”, an international theatre festival for the past twelve years in New Delhi. In this festival plays are selected from both national and international theatre groups. This is one of the significant theatre festivals in Asia. To make this event more eminent, for the past five year National School of Drama has been organising a parallel theatre festival in another state other than Delhi. About twenty plays will be staged in this festival.
This year 2011 Parallel Festival BRM 13 is organized by National School of Drama in collaboration with Department Of Art and Culture, TamilNadu, from Jan 11th to 20th in Chennai Museum Theatre and Sir Mutha Venkata Subbarao Concert Hall (Lady Andal). Two performances will be staged in one evening, thus nineteen plays will be staged in the whole festival. Every evening at 6.00pm first performance will be staged in Museum Theatre and the second will be in Sir Mutha Venkata Subbarao Concert Hall (Lady Andal). The next day morning 10.30am both performed group and the director will be meeting the audience for an open interaction. This director meet will be conducted by Mr. Sadanand Menon and Mr. Pralayan. In addition to this there will be an exhibition on “Theatre” in this festival. There are eight international plays from France, Iran, China, Korea, Argentina, England, Poland, Nepal and eleven Indian plays will be participating in this festival. We have invited students and Theatre practioners and all who are interested in theatre for the very first International theatre festival organized by National School of Drama in Chennai.
This festival will give a clear knowledge of contemporary Indian theatre and new innovations in world theatre which is very necessary for Tamil theatre.
THEATRE UTSAV SCHEDULE
13th Bharat Rangmahatosav
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Day |
Museum Theatre at 6:00 pm
(Egmore Museum. Chennai- 8) |
Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert hall
(Lady Aandal School, Harington Road, Chennai- 31) |
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11 January 2011
Tuesday |
Inauguration
Museum theatre 5.PM
Play: Samanadraba Mami
Concept & Direction: Heisnam Tomba
Group: Kalakshetra, Imphal
Lang: Manipuri, Bengali,Gujarati, Assamese, Rabha
Dur: 50 min |
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| Folk Performance
6.45 Pm |
7:45 pm |
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12 January 2011
Wednesday |
Play: Tritiyo Anko, Oteob
Playwright & Dir: Soumitra Chatterjee
Gp: Prachyo New Alipore, Kolkata
Lang: Bengali
Dur: 1hr.40min (with 10 mins intermission) |
Parayaattam
by
Sekar Group
Madurai
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Play: Le Barbier de Seville
Text: Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais
Director - Éric Vigner
Group: CDDB de Lorient,
France Lang: French
Dur: |
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13 January 2011
Thursday |
Play: Roop Aroop
Playwright & Dir: Tripurari Sharma
Group: Shabdaakaar Art & Cultural Society, New Delhi
Lang: Hindi
Dur: 1 hr 10 mins |
Kaisilambam
by
Kumaravel Group
Dharmapuri
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Play: Charanadas Chor
Playwright: Habib Tanvir
Dir: Anup Hazarika
Group: Ba (The Creative Breeze), Guwahati
Lang: Assamese
Dur: 1 hr 35 mins |
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14 January 2011
Friday |
Play: Muare
Concept &Direction:
Marina Quesada and Natalia Lopez Lopez
Group: Marina Quesada and Natalia Lopez, Argentina
Lang: Spanish (with English subtitles)
Dur: 55 mins |
Oyilaattam
by
Karuppaiah Group
Madurai
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Play: Sagara Kanyaka
Playwright: Henrik Ibsen
Director: Jyothish M.G.
Group: Abhinaya Theatre Research Centre, Kerala
Lang: Malayalam
Dur: 1hr 45min |
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15 January 2011
Saturday |
Play: Miranda
Playwright: Farrukh Dhondy
Director: Jatinder Verma
Group: Tara and Lucid Arts, London
Language: Dance, with musical score and text in English Dur: |
Kaniyaan Koothu
by
S. Muthu Ramalingam Group
ThirunalvelI |
Play: Bisarjan
Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore
Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay
Group: Tritiyo Sutra, Kolkata
Lang: Bengali
Dur: 2 hrs 15min
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16 January 2011
Sunday |
Play: Chumar Pathrangal
Playwright: N.A.Muthusamy
Dir: KS Rajendran
Group: School of Drama and Fine Arts, Kerala
Lang: Malayalam
Dur: 1hr10min |
Raja Rani Aattam
by
Rajendhiran Group
Usilam patti
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Dir: Wendy Jehlen
Group: ANIKAI Dance, USA
Play: He who Burns
Lang: Urdu, Korean & English
Dur: 1hour
Play: Forest
Lang: Non-verbal
Dur: 1 hour |
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17 January 2011
Monday |
Play: Dreams of Taleem
Playwright: Sachin Kundalkar
Dir: Sunil Shanbag
Group: Zero Theatre Company, Mumbai
Lang: Hindi and English
Dur: 2hr.10min (with 15 mins intermission)
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Kaliyalaattam
by
P. chinapatti Group
Thirunalveli
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Play: Some Stage Directions for Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman
Playwright: Based on Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman and texts by the Raqs
Media Collective Dir: Zuleikha Chaudhari
Group: Zuleikha Chaudhari Productions, Delhi
Lang: Hindi & English
Dur: 1hr 10min |
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18 January 2011
Tuesday |
Play: Sooraj Ka Saatwan Ghoda
Playwright: Dharamveer Bharati
Dir: Rajkumar Rajak
Group: Ex-Tra An Organization, Allahabad
Lang: English, Polish, Bangla, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Hindi
Dur: 1 hr 30min |
Thudumbaattam
by
Unarvugal
Chennai |
Play: The Amorous Lotus Pan
Based on the original by Shi Nai'an, the homonymous Sichuan Opera by Wei Minglun and the play by Ouyang Yuqian
Director: Chen Gang
Group: Central Academy of Drama, China
Lang: Chinese
Dur: |
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19 January 2011
Wednesday |
Play: Song of Euripides
Playwright: Euripides
Director: Tomasz Rodowicz
Group: Theatre Association Chorea, Poland
Lang: Polish & Ancient Greek
Dur: 50min |
Dhevaraattam
by
Vella Paandi Group
Aandipatti
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Play: Sangeet Ranadundubhi
Playwright: Veer Vamanrao Joshi
Dir: Uday Dhupkar
Group: Navneet Cultural Association, Goa
Lang: Marathi
Dur: 2hrs 45min(including 10 min intermission) |
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20 January 2011
Thursday |
A Dance by Min Tanaka & Aki Akiyama |
Poi kal kuthirai
by
Madhurai Muthu Group
Chennai |
Play: Khariko Ghera
Dir: Sunil Pokheral
Group: Nepal
Lang: Nepali |
For further info Contact:
Shanmugaraja (9940777494) , Festival co-ordinator , Theatre Utsav
Camp office (commissioner office),
Chennai Museum,
Egmore, Chennai.
