An ensemble of around 18 actors takes the stage this weekend in Hyderabad to present three plays — Thighs, The Poto, and Tax Free by Canopy Theatre and Storyboard Productions. Directed by Eugien Jos Chirammel, Thighs is his way of seeing the Mahabharatha in a new light and is inspired by Bhasa’s Urubhangam, a Sanskrit play. In the last battle, …
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been adapted in Telugu and it will be revisited on stage this weekend in Hyderabad. The 100-minute play co-produced by Storyboard Productions and Canopy Theatre presents the story from the witches’ point of view. “The first thing I told my writer Mohammad Rafi Sheikh was to not Indianise the story for the stage,” says director Eugien …