Not a Dull Moment in a Play that Doesn’t Go Wrong
As the audience walks into the theatre, actors in costume are rushing about looking for a dog that is meant to be in the...
Medha & Zoombish: A Children’s Play that speaks to Adults
Hidayat Sami recently revived under the Theatre Unit banner, Ramu Ramanthan’s children’s play, Medha & Zoombish, that actually speaks to adults, who create barriers of...
2018 में सर्वश्रेष्ठ: रंगमंच
मुंबई में रंगमंच हमेशा की ही तरह गुलजार है ऐसा इसलिए भी है क्योंकि उपनगरों में छोटे छोटे मंच उपलब्ध हैं। जो 10 नाटक...
Best of 2018: Theatre
Mumbai’s theatre scene is buzzing as always, more so because of the small alternative venues in the suburbs. All the ten plays picked may...
I, Cloud: Clever, Humorous, Provocative
In a world tipping into an Orwellian nightmare – in his masterpiece, 1984, the writer imagined a dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian Party--...
धूम्रपान: शान्ति की तलाश स्मोकिंग ज़ोन में
यहाँ धूम्रपान का इंग्लिश में रिव्यु पढ़िए: https://xyngr.com/theatre/seeking-solace-in-a-smoking-zone-dhumrapaan/
दीपा गहलोत
सिगरेट के डब्बे पर स्वास्थ्य चेतावनी और कैंसर मरीजों की डरावनी तस्वीरें लगी होती हैं लेकिन...
Seeking solace in a smoking zone
Read the Dhumrapaan review in Hindi at https://xyngr.com/theatre/dhumrapaan-play-hindi-review-seeking-solace-in-a-smoking-zone/
Cigarettes packets have health warnings and scary pictures of cancer patients, but does that deter anyone? Smoking zones...
Thespo @ Twenty
This is a landmark year for the youth festival Thespo—its 20th edition commences on December 17.
Flashback to twenty years ago, Quasar Thakore Padamsee and his...
Separated in crunched space
It’s a situation quite likely to take place in any city with a space crunch—a couple on the verge of a divorce, forced to...
Labyrinthine life of David Headley
As the anniversary of that dreadful day in November arrives-- 26/11--thoughts go to the men who planned and executed the terror attack on Mumbai....
Fear of the Other
A Farming Story
Directed by Faezeh Jalali
Written by Vineet Bhalla
Cast: Suruchi Aulakh, Meher Acharia-Dar, Dilnaz Irani, Reshma Shetty, Abhishek Saha and others
Rating: Three stars
Faezeh Jalali’s...
40 years on, the Prithvi magic hasn’t dimmed
By Deepa Gahlot
Nobody could have known it then, but November 5, 1978, was to turn out to be a landmark date for Mumbai. That...
Kishan vs Kanhaiya: By God, whatta performance!
By Deepa Gahlot
Paresh Rawal had started his acting career on stage in the 1980s, and then stepped away to have a successful career in films,...
Simple, pleasant plot
By Deepa Gahlot
Written by Shiv Subrahmanyam and directed by Divya Jagdale, Coffee In The Canteen works well in the many alternative theatre spaces opening up...
Bharat Dabholkar’s That’s My Girl
By Deepa Gahlot
Neil Simon, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 91, wrote plays that were humorous, poignant and warm. Their universal,...
Baby’s Blue
By Deepa Gahlot
Ila Arun and KK Raina have directed Tammy Ryan’s Baby’s Blues, which picks up a subject not usually talked about—postpartum depression.
Childbirth is perceived...
Mirror Mirror
By Deepa Gahlot
Even seasoned actors get a little nervous performing alone on stage, and Minissha Lamba has no theatre experience. Still, she manages to hold...
Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah
By Deepa Gahlot
Alfred Hitchcock meets Navketan Noir in Atul Kumar’s Detective Nau-Do-Gyarah -- a crazy, adventurous and completely delightful tribute to old black-and-white crime movies...
Ek Rupiya
By Deepa Gahlot
There was a time long, long ago, when one rupee counted for something, and Nitin Bharadwaj’s Ek Rupaiya a charming cautionary tale, is...
The Father
By Deepa Gahlot
Last year, Naseeruddin Shah successfully experimented with a long run of his production Florian Zeller’s The Father (French original translated into English by...
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CGI Gobbledygook
It has been seen in recent months that a spectacle is not enough to satisfy the audience. While a star like Rajinikanth with his...
Pathbreaking Percussionists
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Blast from the Jazz Past
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