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FirstAct: In 'Between the Banks', a physical performance embodies Manipur's infrastructural irregularities, repercussions
Victor Thoudam • 4 years agoAkhoka Theatre's Between the Banks aspires to embody the physical attitude and behaviour of contemporary Manipur from the context of a developmental project initiated by the state government, particularly the Dolaithabi dam in Manipur.
FirstAct: Watch Between the Banks, a performative theatre production on Manipur's tryst with developmental discrepancies
Victor Thoudam • 4 years ago'Between the Banks' is a physical performance embodying Manipur's infrastructural irregularities and their repercussions.
FirstAct: Watch MD Pallavi's Salt, a play about ramifications of poverty in a pandemic
Md Pallavi • 4 years agoIn MD Pallavi's 'Salt', a woman and her daughters walk the hard line between hunger and dignity.
FirstAct: In 'Salt', a woman and her daughters walk the hard line between hunger and dignity
Md Pallavi • 4 years ago'Salt' revolves around a family of three women — a mother and two daughters — who are coping with the pandemic and its resulting shortcomings by telling each other stories and faking the food on their plate.
FirstAct: Chanakya Vyas' Leftovers examines a pandemic's semantics, its effects on everyday lives
Chanakya Vyas • 5 years agoLeftovers, the upcoming FirstAct presentation in association with Chanakya Vyas, deals with the themes of privilege, fear, and othering — all of which are in focus during the ongoing pandemic.
FirstAct: Theatre Jil Jil Ramamani's Haiku in a Bun explores relationships and grieving in the time of a pandemic
Vikram Phukan • 5 years agoHaiku in a Bun is a tale of three siblings, separated by continents and time-zones, who log on to a video-conferencing app to steady each other through a recent bereavement.
FirstAct: Drama Queen's For Tomorrow explores narratives of desire, distance, surveillance in post-pandemic world
Anuja Ghosalkar • 5 years agoFrom our FirstAct performance series: For Tomorrow is a devised performance created by documentary theatre maker Anuja Ghosalkar on Zoom in collaboration with two filmmakers and two actors working across four cities, two continents traversing time zones, geographies and technologies, create brief vignettes of the future.
FirstAct: Watch Chanakya Vyas' Leftovers, a play about a residents' meeting amid a pandemic
Chanakya Vyas • 5 years agoChanakya Vyas' Leftovers examines a pandemic's semantics, its effects on everyday lives
FirstAct: Watch Drama Queen's play For Tomorrow
Anuja Ghosalkar • 5 years agoDrama Queen's For Tomorrow explores narratives of desire, distance, surveillance in the post-pandemic world
FirstAct: Watch Theatre Jil Jil Ramamani's Haiku in a Bun, a tale of 3 siblings, separated by continents and time-zones
Vikram Phukan • 5 years agoTheatre Jil Jil Ramamani's Haiku in a Bun explores relationships and grieving in the time of a pandemic.