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A VERY HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY - MARCH 27 -
to all ye who visit this blog and are into theatre bashing and praising if not theatre watching!
WORLD THEATRE DAY was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). World Theatre Day is celebrated annually on the 27th March by ITI Centres and the international theatre community, various national and international theatre events being organized to mark this occasion. One of the most important of these is the circulation of the International Message traditionally written by a theatre personality of world stature at the invitation of the International Theatre Institute.
Usually at Masquerade we celebrate World Theatre Day by doing an extended weekend of silly comedies just to keep people happy and laughing while we otherwise do a little more serious work through the year. But since last year we have taken to launching our new annual theatre season. This year, originally our Launch Nite for 2006-07 was supposed to be today. Due to some extenuating circumstances we have moved to April 3. So if you're interested to catch up with our event... here goes the details:
Event: Masquerade's 2006-07 Theatre Season Launch Nite
Performance: ARTIFICIAL REALITIES - a 50 minute presentation of comedies
Place: CEDARS - the specialty Mediterranean Restaurant, Kotturpuram
Time: 7.30 PM
Date: April 3, 2006
Cover Charges Rs. 250/- apply.
Theatre performance to be preceded by Drinks and followed by Specialty Buffet.
You can Call Cedars - 2447 5073 or 5585 5111 for reservation. Limited Walk-ins as this is a private and press launch.
So what have we at Masquerade this season?
- 2 Mainstream Productions
- An extended weekend of 3 full-length productions
- A festival of Short Plays
- A Festival of Youth Theatre
- A year long New Writing in Theatre program…
- Workshops, neighborhood theatre events, collaborative theatre events with schools… many more!
Right Click my title above to reach out a very unique site dedicated to Theatre. Incidentally it was also the organisation - International Theatre Institute - without whose backing and help I could not have had my theatre training in de Vaterland back in 1996. Each year a personality - a theatre personality - is chosen to represent and be awarded with prize for contribution to theatre by ITI and his/her World Theatre Day speech is published here. This year it is Víctor Hugo Rascón-Banda.
Keep doing/supporting theatre. And don't listen to the umpteen entertainment reporters in town, they just write to fill their column centimeters with sound bytes and would write anything to distort reality, depending on who feeds their next meal and washes with their next cocktail. However, there are a couple of critics still left. Thank god for small mercies. As I quote my favourite tactician - the twentieth century Kautilya - and a certain Kerpener who races F-1: Too Much Mass and Too Little Class.
And to add to that, I state, TOO LITTLE CLASS AND TOO MEDIOCRE A CRITICAL MASS!
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15 comments:
Ha Am the forst to comment...Oh so thats why Masquerade`s inagural aint today...oh n wot r d mainstream productions???
@ ANTICK... don't scream abut a removed comment.
opuvfkr - hope you have a fakir if not a kafir on those platforms when you travel by indian railways!
Anand...
passion is what drove dozens of us to theatre back in late 80s early 90s... thwarted passion so to speak. we weren't allowed to even sweep floors by the two or three then-elite groups around. young turks we were ... we were like young mike hussey and Stuart Clarke kept in the anonymity of the Pura Cup by the Hohns and Steve Waughs of this world encouraging untalentd Greg Blewetts and Stuart Laws and Michael Kasporowiczs of this world. So we made our own way through. Not like today when so many kids have it easy to get on stage!
Dear Srini
en pour excuse... I have been busy and not busy. Busy enough not to visit your or Anand's blog and read thruogh and post comments but not busy enough to post small messages about WTD. Sorry. But I don't get like two hours at a stretch to spend on the ether world to drop by. I did read your Trochaic by mail though. It quite wasn't completely trochee, was it? There were some beat inconsistencies bordering on the iamb.
I CeeQ TaQing over the XPrience of Microsoft is my Word Verification that was not accepted?
Check this one: HoLleR thru PlaXO
@ Srini...sorry truncated thoughts.
Learning without the passion to master anything is useless. I still keep the fire to continue learning my theatre. And as long as you are learning and keep some anger and fire going the passion shows. I took up theatre and writing and have been at them without break. I have never taken things that attract me but only those that obsess or fascinate me and continue with them without moving to explore a lot of things and drop them once I think I KNOW IT. May be I have been not so daring with my learning, but what I do I do thoroughly. Nice to know I can set others off to be inspired. But do follow the inspiration through and don't stop there! As one of those 80s one-off pop #1 goes: LIFE IS A HIGHWAY... I'LL BE RIDING ALL DAY LONG.
Vikky... land up at the launch to find out is all I can say. Of course don't forget the t-shirt value add for Char ka Ek free entry deal! :-DDDD
KK -
i removed that because I felt it was slightly insensitive and quite mocking of the sincerity of other individuals.
happy world theatre day. :p
htomlb - as King Tut instructed his harem.
hiya,
i see you've got this rolling... good luck! btw, u gotta check that link, there is some error.
cheers!
ramya
Pray Tell None... what's wrong where? which link??? If it's your link, it loads perfectly well!
oops! i meant the victor hugo rascon banda link...
page wont open
Happy World Theatre Day (belated)!
qdosnt - quotidian dosa-night
Ramya
it is a small irritant. the extension is .htm instead of .html As you would exclaim, Pah!
Cheers and erpdphkd to you!
Dear Srini
the last two lines of the first comment? Oh, trifles... there's this bunch of us trying expansion logic on the word verification codes. Just pure fun what you can muster up. The ones in Caps are my WV code. Well, don't try and leave the wv code as the last entity in a comment, then it prompts to re-enter. So alwasy put in WV and follow it up with whatever. It's fun! Am working on a conspiracy theory about this WV! And that is turning out to be DaMnVioLenS
Yeah yeah Eye... Belated Happy World Theatre Day... and on time World Theatre Week. Am on to your blog to check your whatever post you said is related to WTD. TOERULX mate
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