Nov 19 2023 to Nov 19 2023 11 a.m.

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Price: Rs 300 Book/Buy

Where

Medai - The Stage Bengaluru

No.15, KHB MIG Colony, 5th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560095

Event Description

An original script inspired from a short story titled, ‘A serpent's predicament’. A play about non violence, the need to be your authentic self, to forgive, to not forget and to co-exist with all beings. What does it take to choose love over hate?

Director: Vivek Vijayakumaran

○ Vivek has been part of a constant learning process for over 12 years, facilitated by some of the most renowned theatre stalwarts and masters. 

The most recent being a month-long Master-course for the second time at 'The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards ', in Italy. 

Recipient of the Inlaks India Theatre Award-2012. His work BHIMA has been performed across India to much appreciation and acclaim (since 2015) , including at an international festival in Colombo(2016), and was featured as one of the 10 best plays at META 2017 (Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards) with 7 nominations and 1 win. Since 2015, he has actively worked with over 50 young and upcoming performers in Bangalore, and is slowly moving towards creating a community of disciplined, inspired and hardworking actors. He is also the artistic director at Our Theatre. 

Writer: Suranjay Patil

○ Suranjay was a part of Bangalore based theatre group, Tanariri for about 5 years and participated in more than 45 theatre shows in hindi/english. 

Recently, he has started working with Our Theatre, and Adhura is his latest work in Hindi as a writer. He also contributed to many initiatives of Our Theatre: Online Creation Series (Pyaade, Do Machaliyan, Udo), See-Saw,Eat-for-Art etc. He hails from Maharashtra (Sangli) and currently works in Bangalore, while pursuing theatre practice.

Actors:

○ Abhitej Gupta: Abhitej is a Bengaluru based actor, theatre facilitator and voiceover artiste. He has been part of several plays with various theatre groups in the city. Some of the recent ones being- Just Hiss, Apne Ghar Jaisa and Imagine A Room. 

○ Sachin Ravindran: Sachin Ravindran is an actor, singer, self trained movement artist and Kalaripayattu practitioner from Bangalore.

Sachin has worked with theatre groups in Bangalore and Pondicherry. He has so far acted in four plays, two solo performances for children, two short films and has collaborated with independent filmmakers to create movement videos.An alumnus of The Drama School Mumbai, he is trained in Therukoothu and Ottan Thullal, theatre forms from Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He is also trained in Carntic music for eight years.

○ Kavya Kalur: Kavya Kalur is an actor who has worked in English in Minneapolis, US. She has done several acting workshops at Guthrie Theatre,Minneapolis, LAMDA in London; CATT in Greece and Actor Prepares,Mumbai. Some of the notable theatrical productions are Nagamandala (2023), Murder on the Nile (2021), Around the World in 80 Days (2020), and Proxy (2019); and films are Antarika (2023), A Locked Door (2023).

○ Virginia Rodrigues: With plays like Afterlife Of Birds - Treadmill to her credit, Virginia is considered to be one of the best theatre artists of young India. Making her movie debut, Virginia was cast in K.Gopinathan`s 2017suspense thriller Samarpanam, which stars Anil Nedumangad, Renji Panicker, and P.Balachandran in pivotal roles. Her 2019 release includes Mahira.

○ Garima Mishra: Garima Mishra is a theatre actor and facilitator. She has been practising Theatre for over five years, during the course of which she has worked with Our Theatre Collective, Indianostrum Theatre and Swatantra Theatre. She has practised clowning with Amares Teatro. She also works with Children as a theatre facilitator.