There’s something for everyone this weekend, be it those with a short attention span or those with a penchant for children’s performances. The short play theatre festival at Ranga Shankara promises several plays, each just ten minutes long, while the double bonanza at Head Start promises plays just within an hour each — if short plays are your thing, then this is definitely your week or joy!
Short+Sweet theatrical festival
It all began in Australia and then took Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai by storm — the largest ten-minute theatre festival in the world, is all set regale Bangalore’s theatre audience this Friday.Opening on February 24, this Friday, Short+Sweet will continue till March 4 and feature over 150 local directors and actors, performing in 40 different ten-minute plays in Kannada, English and Hindi.
“Traditional theatre is like a five day test match. Short+Sweet is the exciting, action-packed fast-paced 20-20 of theatre” said Alex Broun, the festival director. The amazing line up includes performances by Dramanon, Ranga Vartula, Tahatto, We Move Theatre, Visage Theatre, Tat Tvam, Cult, Anaavarana Productions, Ravan Entertainment, Jugaad Co, Let’s Meet Tomorrow, Mad Hats Theatre and Rangasiri.
Be at Ranga Shankara, 36/2, 8th Cross, II Phase, JP Nagar, February 24 onwards, call 26493982
The Head Start theatre festival
Two plays — Let’s Dig In and Tales of Kutty — back to back, two days in a row, feature ensemble casts and performers in varied age groups.
Let’s Dig In is a play in English, devised by students of the Head Start Educational Academy. The play tries to find out the special in the ordinary, the interesting in the banal, and stories that always miss us by — stories that we know but we don’t seem to remember. The play attempts to look at the most unusual thing in the usual through the eyes of the children and hence enables them to raise questions about the society which they are part of.
Tales of Kutty on the other hand, is set in a fictional town in Tamil Nadu. The play revolves around the life and dreams of the Kutty family. The play takes a look at the dreams and aspirations nurtured by the townsfolk for the youth, simultaneously examining how these expectations reflect upon youth’s own understanding of their place in society and their way of looking at societal concepts like ambitions and failure. The play was awarded the First Runner-Up Prize at the Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting in 2011.
Be at Head Start Montessori House of Children, CA Site 32(P), 16th Main, 4th Block, Koramangala, on February 25 and 26, 7pm onwards, call 9739010630
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