Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) is an established platform for recognizing and awarding the best plays in India. The spectacular closing ceremony of META 2023 celebrated theatre and other arts too.
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My Wife’s 8th Vachan – Weekend Theatre in Delhi
Last Sunday, we had the pleasure of watching the play "My Wife's 8th Vachan" at Delhi's Kamani...
National School of Drama’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2020
Bharat Rang Mahotsav is a unique opportunity to watch several plays by renowned directors, actors, and theatre groups from India and overseas.
Mosambi Narangi – A Dark Comedy Play by Aadyam
Aadyam Theatre is in its 5th year of producations and has already staged a couple of plays in Delhi. Their latest presentation Mosambi Narangi is anything but about seasonal fruits. It does however have a sense of season in it. We watched this fun play last weekend at Kamani Auditorium and were in splits.
The Kite Runner – The Famous Book is Now An Aadyam Play
It is time for a new season of Aadyam plays in Delhi. Aadyam Season 5 is already into its second presentation. The latest production was something that would excite all book lovers. Khaled Hussaini’s debut and the most loved novel “The Kite Runner” was adapted for a stage production. The play was directed by Aakarsh Khurana and ran a full house that included us.
Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards META 2019
14th Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META), 2019 concluded with a grand awards night. Kamani Auditorium was full to the brim with META team, META jury, actors and theatre lovers to watch this annual extravaganza. The event had a star studded setting what with luminaries from the field of theatre coming together for the love of the art. Ila Arun, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sushma Seth, Swaroopa Ghosh and many other thespians were on the Red Carpet for the META finale.
You can’t afford to miss this International Theatre Festival in Delhi
It’s that time of the year that we wait with baited breath. Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM) – The International Theatre Festival of India is being held from 01- 21 February 2019 at the auditoriums of National School of Drama (NSD) as well as Kamani, Shriram and LTG Auditoriums. It’s a unique opportunity to watch several plays by renowned directors, actors and theatre groups from India and overseas.
Queen of Rock – Musical play for a cause
While recently released Bohemian Rhapsody is still running in cinema halls, we watched a musical play based on the band Queen and its famous lead singer with Indian roots, Freddie Mercury. The musical play was organised to spread awareness on cervical cancer.
Hello Farmaish – An Aadyam Play
As we all know by now, Aadyam is the theatre initiative of the Aditya Birla group. They are in their fourth season and the second play was Hello Farmaish. We watched this production last Sunday at a packed Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi.
Detective Nau Do Gyarah – A laugh riot by Aadyam
Aadyam is back with their 2018 season and the first presentation in Delhi was a Hindi comedy play Nau Do Gyarah. The play was a production by The Company Theatre and directed by Atul Kumar. Given that the plot was a comedy murder mystery, we really didn’t know what to expect.
Anand Express – a trip down the memory lane with Aadyam
Aadyam’s presentation this time is Anand Express. The play is based on Keith Gray’s story Ostrich Boys that was later adapted by Karl Miller for stage. The Indian adaption by Adarsh Khurana was recently staged at Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi. Directed for Aadyam by Nadir Khan, this is a Rage Productions presentation.
Bandish 20 – 20000Hz – music or restriction?
Aadyam has been bringing about a movement in Delhi NCR. Many of us have started coming back to theatre to watch their immaculate play productions. Bandish 20 – 20000Hz was recently staged at Kamani Auditorium under the Aadyam banner. It has upcoming shows in Mumbai this month and it’s a must watch.
Outcaste – META plays 2017
OUTCASTE was a unique play in Hindi by Randhir Kumar in this year’s META. It represented a traditional genre of Indian theatre that was activist in nature. It involved a huge number of artists who ruled the stage with clockwork precision.
Loretta – An Aadyam play in Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2017
Loretta, a play by Sunil Shanbag and a part of Aditya Birla Group’s theatre initiative Aadyam was also staged during NSD’s Bharat Rang Mahotsav. This was a musical with songs in Konkani and English. Musicals are still a rare breed in Indian theater and we were very excited.
Sir Sir Sarla – Play by Zee Theatre
Zee TV’s theatre wing Zee Theater was back with its second presentation “Sir Sir Sarla”, a play written and directed by Makrand Deshpande. The 2 hours 15 minutes play was a most off beat production that cannot be identified in the common classifications of theater that we ordinarily get to see in Delhi. We look forward to their next production in March 2017.
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