The Victory Theatre

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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I believe in the purity, the simplicity of stripping yourself of everything you are, just to attain, or don the role of someone else... it takes a lot to do that, and STILL retain a bit of your own individuality. thats the mark of a great actor.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Thespo 9

Somehow, it never seems to leave us... Seems just yesterday that I posting about my Thespo 8 experiences. Anyhow, a year's passed, a Lot of water under the Lechayim bridge, and now, we're back.

Yes, proudly enough, Lechayim is represented at this year's edition of the THEATRE GROUP, QTP Youth Theatre Festival THESPO, again.

YUVA Thespo 9, from the 13th to the 16th of December 2007.

This time around, Siddharth Kumar, who played Ariel, in Confessions directs ' Damages' on the 15th of December.

It's a play about the workings of a newspaper office, and how everything gets disrupted when a controversial photograph of a supposedly sacred public figure is sent to their workplace, and how a story of office politics, and tabloid-bashing takes a new lease of life. A bunch of fresh faces, along with Lechayim buddies, makes up the cast of this verbose and intense play. Hope to see a lot more audience than we got last year at Confessions ( no mere feat, considering we had a full house, on a Weekday, that too) :) Enough show-sha now.

Damages
15th of December 2007
Cast: Ali Fazal, Nimrat Kaur, Kashin Shetty, Himanshu Sitlani
Running Time: 1 Hour 50 Min. With Interval



The Thespo festival isn't just about lechayim of course.

Here's a low down of all the events scheduled for Yuva Thespo 9


13th Dec 07 -Thursday
2 pm Workshop: Puppet Power : The language of the inanimateDadi Pudumjee and Ramdas PadhyePresented by Jindal Arts Centre in association with Ishara Puppet Theatre and Ramdas Padhye Foundation
6:30 pm Platform Performance: Who Stole the Potato from my Chip? (English)
7 pm Play: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"(English)
You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games

14th Dec 07 - Friday
2 pm Workshop: Abhineta ka Sangeet - Ajay Kumar
6:30 pm Platform Performance:Andher Billat Aahe ( Marathi)
7 pm Play: "Aayushyamaan" (Marathi)
Only when you look death in the face, can you appreciate how beautiful life is.

15th Dec 07- Saturday
2 pm Workshop:Shakespeare is Alive and Kicking - Alyque Padamsee
6:30 pm Platform Performance: Gag (English)
7 pm Play: "Damages" (English)
STOP PRESS!! A scandalous photo has landed on the editor's desk.
Who has sent it?Why?

16th Dec 07 - Sunday
2 pm Workshop:Aesthetics of Social Theatre - Saumya Joshi
6:30 pm Platform Performance:Roshni Mein Jite Hue Log (Hindi)
7 pm Play: "Saari Raat" (Hindi)
A lonely house, a married couple and secrets that only strangers can reveal.

Please Note:
Plays are at the NCPA Experimental theatre at 7 pm.
Each play is preceded by a short performance at 6.30 pm.
Workshops to be held at Tata Rehearsal Room (Except 'Puppet Power' to be held at Little Theatre).
For tickets and workshop registrations please contact Reema on 98204 53015 or thespo@gmail.com.
Schedule subject to change.
Ticket Costs - For adults Rs. 100/- & for students Rs. 50/-


COME, BE A PART OF INDIA"s YOUTH THEATRE MOVEMENT.... YUVA THESPO!