Bangalore Theatre Update

Perchance To Dream - @ Rangashankara, Jan 30 to Feb 3, 7:30pm

Footsbarn travelling theatre troupe of France brings a colourful presentation to town this week.

The production is an amalgamation of extracts from various Shakespeare plays that Footsbarn has staged over the past 30 years. The plays include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, portraying the seasons of life.

... The production can surprise and enthrall you provided you have no rigid notions about the way art should be or more pertinently of how Shakespearean drama should be played.

Shaadi@Barbadi.com - @ Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Feb 3, 7:00pm

A hilarious comedy with Paresh Rawal in lead role

Stephen Wolfram at Techfest 2005

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and the author of A New Kind of Science. Having had a distinguished academic career beginning at an early age, Stephen Wolfram founded Wolfram Research in 1986, and has been its CEO since.

Catch him live at Techfest 2005, Jan 28-30, IIT Bombay

East Coast Rally

Shree Kumar cycled all the way from Chennai to Kolkata in 15 days. A distance of over 2000 kilometres!

He's blogged all about it. With pictures.

[via Anita Bora]

Showed this to my new roomie, Vineet, who early this week had proclaimed me crazy when I recounted a 60-km bicycle trip through the ghats north of Bombay last year.

"Occurances of irrationality cannot be used to rationalise ephemeral moments of personal insanity," were his dismissive words.

Go Sania!

Play your heart out!

Gonna be a beautiful day

I played well today. I played aggressive, dominant. I served brilliantly, and hit some incredible returns. I won. It feels good.

Bangalore Theatre Update

Monologues - @ Rangashankara, Jan 21, 7:30pm

Creeps - @ Grasshopper (Bannerghata Road), Jan 21, 7:30pm, and @ Rangashankara, Jan 22 & 23, 7:30pm

A shocking comedy on the increasing influence of media and a commercialised society in shaping the personaly being, relationships, desires and aspirations of "Generation Next".

Katha Collage - @ Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Jan 22 & 23, 7:30pm

Directed and enacted by Naseerudin Shah, Katha Collage is a collection of three plays based on Munshi Premchand's renowned works Shatranj ke khiladi and Bade bhai sahib and Kamtanath's Sankraman.

The stories are essentially about the circle of life, told in Hindustani through a middle class family in Uttar Pradesh.

Stand Up Noah Small - @ Rangashankara, Jan 26 & 27, 7:30pm

With a cast of 47 children, "Stand up, Noah Small!" is a large scale musical that has been performed extensively in UK and is being produced for the first time in India by Hippocampus Children’s Company. The play has written by Nick Stimson and the music is by Chris Williams.

The director of the production is Bangalorean Vivek Madan who has to his credit plays like Children of a Lesser God and Yavamajakka. The Composer, Musical Direction and adaptation for Indian audiences for this production is done by Chris Williams. Chris Williams is a theatrical entrepreneur, who has made a name for himself in UK and Europe as a composer and a musical director, especially for his work with young people.