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Women and a whole lot of Vaginas

Last Friday, the Times of India, Bangalore brought down from Bombay, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal’s production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. For those who don’t know, The Vagina Monologues is an Obie Award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran … Continue reading

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How good does it need to be?

Recently at a few productions I’ve seen, there have been standing ovations. None of the productions I saw merited such overwhelming praise. It’s almost as if, starved of quality theatre, audiences in Bangalore raise average performances well above their due. … Continue reading

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A week of theatricals

Not exactly a bunch of reviews, but Bangalore has seen a lot of good English theatre in the last week, and here’s my take on them. Firstly there was Lucknow ’76 written and directed by Abhishek Majumdar on the 1st … Continue reading

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To The Death Of My Own Family

Q Theatre Productions brought down to India, an interesting play from New York called To The Death of My Own Family. Farah Bala, an actor, director and teaching artist, orginally from Bombay, was the only actor in this just-short-of-one-hour production … Continue reading

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