Love for Theatre

The latest play I saw was the play "Antigone" - that shows the conflict of love for brother that defies rationality.
Review of one of the plays that I saw at Bangalore's Rangashankara:
The play "Perchance to Dream" was by Folksbarn Travelling Theatre from France.

They play started off with "Romeo and Julliet" with Julliet calling out from her verandah for Romeo. Then it was "Hamlet" talking to his father's ghost. Next came a very humorous part with the actors deciding on how to cast the pay "King Lear". Then came "Hail the Thane of Cawdor"- Macbeth.

After the interval, we come to the Romeo's banishment and Julliet's taking the sleeping pill. Hamlet soliloquies on "To be or Not to be" - and then tormenting his mother for her guilt. The cast then very humorously played out "King Lear" with a cake to show the division of his kingdom to his three daughters. Then the muder of Duncan and Banquo.

In the Final scene, we are shown, how Julliet commits suicide, Hamlet and his mother taking their lives, King Lear dying in loneliness and Macbeth killing himself.

A very innovative way to showcase Shakespeare. It was a 3 hrs long program with full of energy and enthusiasm shown by the actors. There was show of love, passion, power, greed, envy, jealousy and drama. And the actors were not just speaking English, but French, Hindi, Malayalam to make it international. The use of props to change from scene to scene and the transitions were also very smooth.

On the whole a very enjoyable evening :-) !

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Anonymous said…
On 6-Aug, saw Othello. The director carefully used real-life characters to bring out Othello's story. Hence, the real-life characters bring out the passion, envy, jealousy between Othello, Desdemona and Cassius. But the issue was the words were spoken far to quickly in Shakespeare's own words. So, if you have not read the play, you may miss some of that.
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