There was Chennapattanam and then there was Madras.
About 357 years later, in 1996, she became Chennai. And whatever she may be called 385 years from now, she will always remain the "Queen of the Coromandel"!
Come wander around this blog. It will give you a peek into her soul!!
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!
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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.
2 comments:
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.
>> Ram>> Have not been to this hall at all; good that you got to see the one!
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