Pritham on Lights

Pritham handled lights for ‘Woyzeck’, the play I helped with last weekend. He did a fantastic job of it as you can see from some of the pictures. Woyzeck, as a play, depends a LOT on the sound and lights to create various effects that are needed for it. Some of the brilliantly lit scenes that I managed to catch included the green [...]

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Anish and Aashish

Over last weekend, I helped out backstage with the TFA / Rafiki collaborative production, ‘Woyzeck’ directed by Anmol Vellani. It is there that I saw first hand how much preparation and work goes into putting up a theatre production! Its much much harder than a simple band going on stage and playing a show! Anish and Aashish are [...]

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Rangashankara

Rangashankara has become like a Oasis in the desert of Bangalore for theatre lovers and infact I am sure it has enabled a lot of people to take up theatre professionally! What I like about Rangashankara apart from the brilliant facilities that it provides for theatre companies and the lovely space that it is, is the discipline it has inculcated [...]

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The Importance of being ‘Earnest’

A bunch of us turned up at Rangashankara earlier today and rather promptly I should say (Rangashankara inspires that in you!) to catch the Evam production ‘The Importance of being “Earnest”‘. There are very few things to do in Bangalore right now if you don’t want to go eat or go to the movies, atleast very few [...]

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