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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Posted 12:16 PM by Anurag

Feb 13-18: Kriyative Theatre Trust's PlayFest

Still possible to catch some action!

"Sir / Madam,

Kriyative Theatre Trust, started less than two years ago, has already produced two new plays and given over fifty performances all over the state and outside. Apart from staging Kannada plays, this unique bi-lingual group has the distinction of introducing the non-Kannada audience to outstanding Kannada plays by staging them in English as well. Before taking up yet another new production, Kriyative Theatre is conducting a festival of all its present productions at Rangashankara from February 13 to 18, 2007. Except for the opening play, all the other productions being presented at this six-day festival are solo performances directed by Soumya Varma and performed by Laxmi Chandrashekar. While Gajanana Naik has scored the music for all the plays in the festival, Muddanna Rattihalli has designed the lighting.

The festival, which features 5 plays in Kannada and 2 in English, opens with 'Heegadre Hege', a hilarious comedy based on the writings of T.Sunandamma. The play scripted by K.Y.Narayana Swamy, designed and directed by Pramod Shiggaon, has well known theatre and television artistes, Sunder and Laxmi Chandrashekar in the cast.

A solo adaptation of Dr.Chandrasekhara Kambara's novel 'Singarevva mattu Aramane', will be staged in Kannada on the 14 th and in English on the 17th. 'Hennallave' and its English version 'Just A Woman', which saw the 150th show at the Rajbhavan recently will be staged on 15th and 16 th respectively. The final day will see the staging of two short plays - 'Eddelu' and 'Medea', Kannada adaptations of two monologues by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and his actress wife, Franca Rame.

In view of the 'Suvarna Karnataka' celebrations, tickets for the Kannada plays are being sold at a concessional rate of Rs.40 only. Tickets for the English plays, however, are priced at Rs.100. All the plays will begin at 7.30 P.M sharp. A souvenir, consisting of information about the plays and articles on contemporary theatre by eminent theatre persons, is also being brought out on the occasion.

Tickets are available in advance at Rangashankara. For further information, contact Kriyative Theatre on 94480 88008 or 26718483 or mail your enquiries to kriyativetheatre AT gmail dot com

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