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CATEGORIES:Seminars & Workshops
CREATED:20211120T121116
SUMMARY:"Ho sakta hai do admi do kursiyan" - theatre performance by Padatik Theatre and Rikh, Kolkata
LOCATION:- Kalidas Studio\, FLAME University
DESCRIPTION:About the Play\nUsing an ironic juxtaposition of humour with the tragic and
  the serious, Padatik and Rikh's presentation "ho sakta hai do aadmi do kur
 siyaan" uses two chairs and two actors to tell a number of stories through 
 intense and inward performances.\nZooming in on fragments from different in
 dividual lives, these apparently unconnected stories are linked by the emot
 ions born of love, loss and absence.\nThe chairs become a mercurial, ever-c
 hanging metaphor as the play intersects urban relationships and makes the i
 mplicit statement that we are given life to experience compassion not to in
 flict violence; and that those who do not recognize the fragility of life m
 ay succumb to either an inner decay or to a moment of rage which endangers 
 society.\nThe performance is an exploration of stillness and silence, word 
 and image, inscapes and instresses and also an exposition of emotion in var
 ious shades.\nThe play has had over 50 performances in Kolkata and has rece
 ived standing ovations at the Mumbai Theatre Festival, Sudarshan Rang Mahot
 sav (Pune), Lucknow Natya Samaroh, Film and Television Institute of India (
 Pune), Prithvi Theatre (Mumbai).\nIt was also staged at The Nehru Centre, L
 ondon in September, 2007 as part of the INDIA NOW festival.\nIt was invited
  to Watermans Arts Centre London for a season of 12 shows (2008).\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>About the Play</p><p>Using an ironic juxtaposition of humour with the tr
 agic and the serious, Padatik and Rikh's presentation "ho sakta hai do aadm
 i do kursiyaan" uses two chairs and two actors to tell a number of stories 
 through intense and inward performances.</p><p>Zooming in on fragments from
  different individual lives, these apparently unconnected stories are linke
 d by the emotions born of love, loss and absence.</p><p>The chairs become a
  mercurial, ever-changing metaphor as the play intersects urban relationshi
 ps and makes the implicit statement that we are given life to experience co
 mpassion not to inflict violence; and that those who do not recognize the f
 ragility of life may succumb to either an inner decay or to a moment of rag
 e which endangers society.</p><p>The performance is an exploration of still
 ness and silence, word and image, inscapes and instresses and also an expos
 ition of emotion in various shades.</p><p>The play has had over 50 performa
 nces in Kolkata and has received standing ovations at the Mumbai Theatre Fe
 stival, Sudarshan Rang Mahotsav (Pune), Lucknow Natya Samaroh, Film and Tel
 evision Institute of India (Pune), Prithvi Theatre (Mumbai).</p><p>It was a
 lso staged at The Nehru Centre, London in September, 2007 as part of the IN
 DIA NOW festival.</p><p>It was invited to Watermans Arts Centre London for 
 a season of 12 shows (2008).</p>
DTSTAMP:20260827T140029
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20191217T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20191217T191500
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