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.
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.
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