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Anything but child’s play

I hate working with kids. Not because I don’t like children (I actually am quite fond of the little critters), but every time I try to get them to do something formalised, it ends in disaster. For years, I have resisted working with children. But we are all servants to the larger theatre group. So when it was decided that Thespo would create a play for kids with kids, I had no choice but to dive in.

Stage delight: Pedagogy at play

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JUGGLING IS sometimes called the art of controlling patterns in time and space. Theatre director Anuradha Kapur practices this magical form of art as she switches between the roles of a trainer, an artist, and an administrator who runs the National School of Drama, the premiere theatre training institute of India. She has played

Moods of nature, a la Wordsworth, Shelley

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The artist Paramjit Singh has always been one who studied the country’s unspoiled wilderness with its seemingly limitless potential.

Cultivating theatre’s roots

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THERE’S A LOT to be said about the person who doesn’t say it himself. Theatre director Chidambara Rao Jambe blushes everytime his startling contribution to the saga of stage is mentioned.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.