When Death comes knocking, what do you hold on to? Jagriti Theatre’s latest production, Everybody, directed by Rebecca Spurgeon, makes the audience explore one of life’s ultimate questions. “A big part of the curriculum is exploring a variety of texts and understanding performance through body, voice, and text.” What emerged from these explorations is a contemporary adaptation of the 15th-century …
In Girish Karnad’s Bali: The Sacrifice, a king is torn between his love for his Jain queen, who refuses to harm life, and his duty to his mother, who demands sacrificial rites. This drew me to Bali and two other Girish Karnad plays I directed, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan and Yayati,” says Arundhati, “I have always strived, however, to …
The Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad is as familiar to us as the tales from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and yet we never tire of them. “I believe the most important stories are the ones that we can continue to tell because they continue to be relevant and important,” says Rebecca Spurgeon, artistic director of Jagriti Theatre, which will be …
Every theatre lover waits for October when Ranga Shankara’s Theatre Festival commences. One of the country’s most awaited theatre festivals, Bengaluru’s Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2023 – Narratives & Narratives, will take place from October 27 to November 1 this year, at Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar. The six plays lined up for the festival this year are Slices of the …
The New York Times‘s review of Thom Pain says, “It’s one of those treasured nights in the theatre — treasured nights anywhere, for that matter — that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and, depending on your sensitivity to meditations on the bleak and beautiful mysteries of human experience, in a puddle of tears. Rebecca Spurgeon will be directing …
