Hayavadana

Theatre again!!!

No, my blog is not about plays!! :-). Thought of sharing with u the great experience i had yesterday in "Rangashankara".

The play being showed-Hayavadana(meaning:Person with a head of Horse)

sounds interesting rt? so was it.

Let me begin with Rangashankara, the theatre is too good. The ambience is so nice.

The inner side doesnt have any plaster coated on it.

It is bricks and only bricks.

The bricks are painted black in some places and left with their original color in some part of the interior.

the seats form a small part of a big cirlce, nealy arranged one behind other

You have to see it to experience.

Coming to the play, it is based on one of the works by Jnanapeetha Awardee Girish Karnad.

The theatre group which presented the play is "Benaka"(Meaing Ganesh)

The music was composed by B.V. Karanth.

Great performances by all the artists, great music and some witty dialogues and great humour made for a wonderful play.

The stage was used very creatively.

A scene where Goddess Kali appears before Padmini which could have been very serious was filled with great humour.

Me and my friend were overjoiced at the end.

National Theatre Festival:Katha Collage-2

In recent times, I am finding myself very much interested in Theatre.
This can be attributed to many things i think.
But let me tell u some thing, I am not a regular to the plays.
It was in late 2004 when I had last been to the theatre.
And the latest being last friday, the 6th of Jan.

For the first time the National theatre festival is arranged in a city other than Delhi. This time both Delhi and b'lore are hosting this mega event.

The name which always draws me to the theatre is that of the lagendary actor Naseeruddin Shah. The first play i saw in b'lore was directed(i was fortunate to see him act that time) by him(Katha Collage-I) and this time it was Katha Collage-2. But he didnt come to blore this time.

Let me tell u abt Katha Collage. Motley (Naseeruddin Shah's Theatre group) is enacting this collection of short stories for a quite a while now.
Katcha-Collage1 was a collection a collection of 3 short stories; all brilliant.
This play gave me an opportunity to see Naseer’s superb performance.

Katcha-Collage2 contained small short stories, all inspired by day to day life.

The show started with “Telephone”, which depicted how this invention has changed our lives, in a humorous way. In fact humour was the main ingredient in all the plays.
This was followed by another play(don’t remember the name :-D) where Naseer showed how people praise others to get their work done.
All the plays were equally good, with some strong message.

The artists handled emotions, comedy very well with appropriate body language. It was a treat to the eyes to watch them perform.

We were happy at the end to have experienced something different.

One thing was very annoying, the indiscipline in the audience. Inspite of several requests from the crew and the organizers many people in the audience didnt switch-off their cell phones.

Me moving out of Bangalore :-(

Wish u all a wonderful year ahead.
my new year resolutions? To not make any resolution.

Let me come to the point.
Our unit in Kyocera is moving out of B'lore b'cos of business reasons. The news came as a total surprise to me. Actually first there were rumours that v will be shifting to some other location within Bangalore premises, i was not ready even for that. B'cos i had changed my room recently and was now staying very close to my good friends.
Now I have to move out of bangalore, heart aches with the thought that I have to leave my all good friends here and move out.
I will miss so many other things...the thought itself is so horrible.

But, the reasons my unit head put forth for this move were very convincing, so cant blame them for that.
The places they are considering are Mysore, Mangalore(which is close to my native), Kochin and Trivendrum.

Both Mysore and Mangalore are OK but i dont want to go to far from my Hometown.
let's c what happens.

They say "Change is only the constant thing", but change in one aspect of ur life is OK...agreed.
But here my whole life it self drastically changed in a matter of an hour.

-Prakash