VODOTheatre's Alternate play reading Sessions
In Arrangement with Samuel French, Jagrithi
The play: Can't Pay, Won't Pay
Playwright: Dario Fo
About the play:
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is an hilarious, sharply satirical take on individual responsibility and politics, challenging today's audience to abandon political cynicism and take to the streets. It depicts working class women who have rebelled against the cost of living by taking goods from a store without paying. The plot concerns their efforts to conceal their bold decisions from their men folk and the police who are - as often in Fo - blundering figures of fun. The dénouement involves characters appearing and disappearing out of windows and doors - the kind of farcical business of which Fo is a master.
Reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Fo
Venue:
Alliance Francaise de bangalore
Thimmiah Road, Vasantnagar, Bangalore
Map: http://preview.tinyurl.com/mqtf87
Contact: Yashwanth - 9880426783 | Contactvodo@gmail.com
Disclaimer : This is purely a theater interest and appreciation activity and has no commercial relevance whatsoever.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
We're Back ..
By popular demand, we are staging Six degrees of seperation again, this time on a weekend at Rangashankara
When: 22nd August - 3:30 and 7:30 PM
Where: Rangashankara.
Tickets:
www.indianstage.in
Pictures from our past shows
Created with flickr slideshow.
preview by www.mybangalore.com
About the Play:
In a typical upper middle class household on the East Side of
Manhattan, the Kittredges are busy entertaining an old friend of
theirs ('"A friend from South Africa!") who they hope will lend them
the funds for a major art deal. Just as the three set out for dinner,
they have a surprise visitor - a young black man, who has been stabbed
and is in dire need of some first aid.
The play, set to the tune of a fine cocktail conversation, pieces
together events that happened around this one night. Light, farcical
and yet deeply insightful, John Guare whisks us through several worlds
and moods at breathtaking speed. With every narration the characters
slice through another layer of invisible wall, another degree if you
will, to get closer to solving some nagging mysteries around the young
man.
About the author:
John Guare wrote this award-winning play based on a real event that happened in the late 90s. With creative liberties and crafty use of stage space, Guare gives us a wonderfully imaginative, yet credible story of New Yorkers struggling to stay up the social ladder and yet yearning for that genuine human connection.
Note: This play is suitable only for a mature adult audience.
When: 22nd August - 3:30 and 7:30 PM
Where: Rangashankara.
Tickets:
www.indianstage.in
Pictures from our past shows
preview by www.mybangalore.com
About the Play:
In a typical upper middle class household on the East Side of
Manhattan, the Kittredges are busy entertaining an old friend of
theirs ('"A friend from South Africa!") who they hope will lend them
the funds for a major art deal. Just as the three set out for dinner,
they have a surprise visitor - a young black man, who has been stabbed
and is in dire need of some first aid.
The play, set to the tune of a fine cocktail conversation, pieces
together events that happened around this one night. Light, farcical
and yet deeply insightful, John Guare whisks us through several worlds
and moods at breathtaking speed. With every narration the characters
slice through another layer of invisible wall, another degree if you
will, to get closer to solving some nagging mysteries around the young
man.
About the author:
John Guare wrote this award-winning play based on a real event that happened in the late 90s. With creative liberties and crafty use of stage space, Guare gives us a wonderfully imaginative, yet credible story of New Yorkers struggling to stay up the social ladder and yet yearning for that genuine human connection.
Note: This play is suitable only for a mature adult audience.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Sunday Reading
After the marathon shows, we are back to what we do regularly - Reading plays. Drop in to Suchitra film society @ 3 PM on Sunday for a fun filled session of play reading.
We read Girish Karnad's Wedding Album:
"Wedding Album", explores the traditional Indian Wedding in a globalized, technologically advanced India . On the surface it's a familiar picture- a joyful event when members of the clan come together to celebrate and reaffirm loyalties, but behind the picture perfect smiles, simmer long suppressed suspicions, jealousies, frustrations and aggression.
The play deals with a normal urban middle- class family : a daughter who lives abroad with her professional husband, a brother who is a software designer, a younger daughter happy enough to marry a suitable boy from the US she has never met, and then, of course, there is the doting mother and the loyal cook. A family, which is educated, liberal, and modern. Each snapshot shows its members frozen in a projection of respectability, but each figure has a double image, with the shadow of a hidden life.
More information about the author - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girish_Karnad
Venue: Suchitra Film Society
9th Main Rd, Basavangudi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Map attached below :-)
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We read Girish Karnad's Wedding Album:
"Wedding Album", explores the traditional Indian Wedding in a globalized, technologically advanced India . On the surface it's a familiar picture- a joyful event when members of the clan come together to celebrate and reaffirm loyalties, but behind the picture perfect smiles, simmer long suppressed suspicions, jealousies, frustrations and aggression.
The play deals with a normal urban middle- class family : a daughter who lives abroad with her professional husband, a brother who is a software designer, a younger daughter happy enough to marry a suitable boy from the US she has never met, and then, of course, there is the doting mother and the loyal cook. A family, which is educated, liberal, and modern. Each snapshot shows its members frozen in a projection of respectability, but each figure has a double image, with the shadow of a hidden life.
More information about the author - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girish_Karnad
Venue: Suchitra Film Society
9th Main Rd, Basavangudi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Map attached below :-)
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