14th BRM - Festival

Bharat Rang Mahotsav

The 14th Mahotsav will include several national and international performances, and various associated events in a wrap-around program.

Festival Schedule - January 2012 (click on the play name for details)

Date

SRC
4:30 pm

LTG
6:30 pm

Bahumukh
6:00 pm

Sammukh
6:00 pm

Kamani
7:00 pm

Abhimanch
8:30 pm

Meghdoot 1 & 2
5:30pm

Meghdoot 3/ Rabindrabhawan
5:00pm

NSD Open Air/ Abhikalp
6:30 pm

8 Sun					Inauguration The King of Dark Chamber- Raja Dir: Ratan Thiyam	Papa Laden Dir: Suman Mallipeddi
9 Mon	Visarjan (Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Bisarjan) Dir: Sangeeta Sharma	Gajab Kahani (Based on Jose Saramago’s The Elephant's Journey) Dir: Mohit Takalkar	Jannat Mahal (Based on a short story by Fakir Muhammed Katpudi) Dir: Sahana P		Grotowski- An Attempt to Retreat (Group Collaboration) Dir: Tomasz Rodowicz	Nain Nachaiya (Based on Tirumalnath Aiyulnath’s Sanskrit prahasan Kuhuna Bhaikshav) Playwright: Satish Dave Dir: Farid Bazmi Group: Rang		Lankalakshmi Playwright: C N Sreekantan Nair Dir: Chandradasan
10 Tue	Journey to Dakghar (Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s Dakghar and other historical sources) Playwright & Dir: Manish Mitra	Payanihal (A one-act absurd drama) Playwright: Dr. Dharamasena Pathiraja Dir: Ronik Chamali Ranneththi &Selvaraj Leelawathi		Khud aur Khuda (Solo Performance) Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Kavalam Narayana Panikkar	Red Hot (Adapted from Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers) Dir: Saurabh Shukla	Mirage (Based on Dr. Saroj Bharadwaj's translation of Kalidasa's Ritusamhara) Dir: Loitongbam Paringanba		Bastar Band Dir: Anup Ranjan Pandey
11 Wed	Kothay Paabo Tare (Where Shall We Find Him) Playwright & Dir: Debasis Sengupta	Chandalika Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Bivash Bishnu Chowdhury	Inkosazana Prof. Mfundo Tshazibane Cape Town		Adhe Adhure Playwright: Mohan Rakesh Dir: Lillete Dubey	Tota Bola (Based on Chandrasekhar Kambar’s Jokumarswami) Dir: Sajan Mondal		*Actors Are Not Allowed Script & Dir: Dr. V. Arumugham
12 Thu	Rakta-Karabi Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Shubhasis Gangopadhyay	Samjhouta (Based on Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh’s Samjhouta) Dir: Pravin Kumar Gunjan	Ferrous Dir: Vishnupad Barve	The Golden Dragon Playwright: Roland Schimmelpfennig Dir: Ramin Gray	Peking Opera Dir: Zhang Yijuan	Beech Shahar Playwright & Dir: Tripurari Sharma	Ghayal Pakhara Playwright & Dir: Anirudha D. Wankar	Taramandal (Based on Satyajit Ray’s story ‘Patol Babu Film Star’) Dir: Neel Chaudhuri
13 Fri	E=mc2 (Based on Badal Sircar’s Tringsho Shatabdi & Inspired by Ferdinand Gigon’s E=mc2: Formula for Death) Dir: Raja Bhattacharya	Marimankanni Playwright: M.N.Vinaykumar Dir: V. Abhimanyu	Loika Loikum Playwright & Dir: Goshe Meitei		Chandalika Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Usha Ganguli	Meidhwani (Devised by members of the Attakkalari Repertory) Dir: Jayachandran Palazhy	Rather Rashi Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Sukracharjya Rabha	Zero One Project Dir: Abheesh Sasidharan
14 Sat	Hungry Stone (Based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore) Dir: Heisnam Tomba			Miss Julie Playwright: Johan August Strindberg Dir: Meeta Mishra & Govind Singh Yadav	Byomkesh Playwright: Sharadindu Bandhopadhyay Dir: Bratya Basu	The Water Station Playwright: Shogo Ohta Dir: Sankar Venkateswaran	Karnabhara Playwright: Bhasa Mahakavi Dir: Sripad Bhat		Romeo Juliet and Security Guard Dir: Prof. Jane Collins Abhikalp
15 Sun	Goodbye, Forever! (Based on Donald Margulies’ What’s Wrong with this Picture?) Dir: Feisal Alkazi	Priya Bawari Playwright: Mahakavi Bhasa Dir: Prof. Waman Kendre	Looking IN & OUT Dir: Madoka Okada & Savita Rani		Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (An adaptation of the original text by Jules Verne) Dir: Pino Di Buduo	Jalam Dir: Madhu Gopinath & Vakkom Sajeev	Khala Kamaal Ki Playwright: Rafi Shabbir Dir: Farrukh Sher Khan	Kavyer Katha Dir: Chandrakant Kale	Ghola Creator-in-the-Lead: Anupam Kaushik Abhikalp 2. Kamsa-Giant Puppet Piece Dir: Anurupa Roy NSD Open Air
16 Mon	Shrinwantu Comrades Playwright: Mikhail Shatrov Dir: Bibhas Chakraborty	Land of Pongo (Improvised text based on a folktale) Dir: Shanmugaraja		Let's Unpack! (Scriptless Performance) Dir: Meenal Kapoor	Jaswandi Playwright & Dir: Sai Paranjpye	Hamara Shehar Us Baras Playwright: Geetanjali Shree Dir: Kirti Jain	Molagaapodi Playwright: Bama Dir: Srijith Sundaram	Baaghin Meri Saathin (Based on Dario Fo’s Tale of a Tiger) Dir: Parvez Akhtar
17 Tue	Mythical Surrender Playwright: Budha Chingtham Dir: Ningthouja Deepak	Sangeet Saunshaykallol Playwright: Govind Ballal Deval Dir: Nipun Dharmadhikari	Patni Ka Patra (Solo Performance) Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Gita Guha		Raja Lear Playwright: William Shakespeare Dir: Suman Mukhopadhyay	Ravanama (Solo Performance) Dir: Maya Krishna Rao	Aaj Rang Hai Playwright: Purva Naresh Dir: Gopal Tewari & Purva Naresh	Chakrathi Charkha Sudhi (Based on Dinkar Joshi‘s Chakra thi Charkha Sudhi with some enactments from articles by Urvish Kothari &Asghar Wajahat) Dir: Rajoo Barot
18 Wed	Surjo-Pora Chhai Script & Dir: Debesh Chattopadhyay	Insha Ka Intezaar Playwright: Samuel Beckett Dir: Anwer Jafri		Starting Over (Group Collaboration) Dir: Masha Nemirovsky	Stories in a Song Written by: Aslam Pervez, Ashok Mishra, Vikram Phukan, Anil Deshmukh, Purva Naresh Dir: Sunil Shanbag	Chorus of Women Dir: Marta Gornicka	Hamlet Playwright: William Shakespeare Dir: Ekbal Ahmed	Wattepaed Playwright & Dir: Arshad Mushtaq
19 Thu	Adi Vidrohi Tilka Playwright & Dir: Sheikh Khairuddin		Avani- A Handful of Dust (A solo neo-bharatam dance theatre presentation) Concept & Co- Choreographer: Anita Ratnam Choreography & Direction : Hari Krishnan		Kshudito Pashan (Dance Theatre based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore) Dir: Kunal Padhy	The Game of Dice (Based on an episode from the Mahabharata) Dir: Santosh Nair	Sup - Ek Prahasan Script & Dir: Ashim Kumar Sharma	Amaar Priyo Rabindranath Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Swatilekha Sengupta
20 Fri	Lal Baksho (The Red Box) Evolved through a workshop Dir: Sohag Sen	Mastakabhisheka Rehearsallu Playwright: H.S. Shivaprakash Dir: Suresh Anagalli		Streer Patra Dir: Seema Biswas	Peer Gynt Playwright: Henrik Ibsen Dir: Deepan Sivaraman	Antigone Dir: Kenan Isik		The Little Prince (Based on the original text by Antoine de Saint-Exupery) Dir: Arash Absalan	Tthela Wallah Performance / Exhibition: Director / Curator: Krishna Mahawar NSD Open Air
21 Sat	A Midsummer Night's Dream Playwright: William Shakespeare Dir: Daulat Vaid	Master Builder Dir: Dr. B. Jayshre	Richard III Dir: K.S. Rajendran		Mera Rang de Basanti Chola Playwright: Shahid Nadeem Dir: Madeeha Gauhar	In the name of Jakub S. Dir: Monika Strzepka	Badshah Pather (An adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear) Playwright: William Shakespeare Dir: M.K.Raina ***	Dravya Kaya Choreography: Navtej Johar	Agni Pakhi Dir: Dinesh Khanna Abhikalp
22 Sun	Santaap Playwright: Koushik Chattopadhyay Dir: Sandip Bhattacharya	4.48 Psychosis (Solo Performance) Playwright: Sara Kane Dir: Morten Krogh		Samapti Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore Dir: Devendra Raj Ankur	Kino Kao (What to Say)) Playwright & Director: Pabitra Rabha	Blood Wedding Playwright: Federico Garcia Lorca Dir: Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry			lying-down-on-the-ground Dir: Sonia Khurana Abhikalp
* Programme subject to change at short notice By Invitation only * Reschedule