Sunday, August 10, 2008

Bringing down the curtains

'The Hindu', Chennai's venerable newspaper, has been bringing an annual week-long theatre festival to the city for four years now. Normally the plays are all in English, but this year's opening was a Korean adaptation of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (with English surtitles), probably in acknowledgement of Chennai's large population of Korean expats. The other new feature this year was a play produced by the Fest, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut, which premiered on August 3.

Apart from the plays - which included productions from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chandigarh and New York - the festival had a symposium on English Theatre in India, as well as a workshop on running a theatre company. Today is the last day of the festival; owing to a variety of reasons, I have not been able to watch even a single performance this year.

I therefore had to be content with going to the Sir Venkatsubba Rao Concert Hall to take pictures of these off-stage props!



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i was fortunate to watch one of the plays this time ..... vis-a-vis last 2 editions (where i'd managed 3-4 plays)
The Hall is brilliant and superb seating, aesthetics and overall comfort of the audience.

Shantaram said...

>> Ram>> Have not been to this hall at all; good that you got to see the one!