Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Checkmate - Rangashankara
I went to watch this play for the sole reason being - it was a thriller/suspence play. Been sometime since I opted for anything but comedy. The story in brief is like this: There is a couple who plan in detail to cheat the law and become rich, by ( perhaps very common in the [...]
Comments - Posted in Play Review by Rk
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Rangashankara - Neenaanaadrenaaneenena
# This is a play of classic story of mistaken identities. There are two pairs of twins and they mix up.
# Good name of the play!
# In brief - 1.1 (one set’s one of the twins) and 2.1 are initially friends. They come to a city which also had was inhabited by 1.2 and 2.2 [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Rangashankara - Maduve Maduve
This is a musical play using quite heavily the poems of “prema kavi” B R Lakshmana Rao to the music of C R Ashwath.
One part of the story is oft-repeated love story - the birth of the story, a third angle which was actually a misunderstanding, happy ending - in marriage. If there was [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Rangashankara - Mallinatha Dhyana
This was, again, a collection of three short stories by Vaidehi. Given the inclination/theme her stories has, the play too was an attempt to dive into woman’s mind.
There were three protagonists, the first one was most interesting for me. She was Shakuntala, the famous character of Kalidasa’s play. The director/playwright here takes few wonderful [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Heegadre Hege
Posts of other few events I attended would follow.
Heegadre hege - A play.:
This is a funny play formed after putting together 3 different stories of T. Sunandamma. One talks about the Kannada vs English, one dream about winning the lottery, another about the life of writers, life after retirement. All make us look at [...]
Comments - Posted in Kannada, Play Review by Rk
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Rangashankara - Sankramana
This was an awesome play, one of the best ones I have seen. This is a Hindi play translated to Kannada and directed by S.Surendranath - director of “Nodi swami navirode heege” movie. The play also marks the return (or debut ??) of Girija Lokesh to stage after many years.
Its quite easy to see [...]