Why this book on Safdar Hashmi’s death and life is a great start for the history of street theatre

Sudhanva Deshpande’s ‘Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi’ breaks new ground in combining history with biography.

Souradeep Roy

· Jul 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Kolkata’s commercial theatre was built on literature, but was looked down on by the intelligentsia

A new video captures a history through play and novel readings.

Saikat Majumdar

· Jun 20, 2020 · 03:30 pm

How Shakespeare shaped his plays (and made Hamlet fat) to suit his leading man

Richard Burbage was the first person to play Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth but he did not age particularly well.

Lisa Hopkins, The Conversation

· Mar 21, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Untitled-1’: Read a scene from the play that won Annie Zaidi The Hindu Playwright Award 2018

‘Set in a dystopian future, it examines the metaphors in the stories we relate about ourselves...’

Annie Zaidi

· Aug 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

It’s playtime: An Indian repertory company is making children’s theatre more inclusive

Gillo Repertory performs its adaptations of popular books for children in cities as well as villages.

Damini Kulkarni

· Nov 18, 2017 · 06:30 pm

How did a forgotten play by Shakespeare resurface in Malayalam in Kerala?

‘Pericles, Prince Of Tyre’ is set by the seaside, features sea voyages and a comic scene with fishermen.

Anam Rizvi

· Aug 28, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Ismat Chughtai's controversial tale of sexual exploitation in the nobility returns to the stage

Writing about sex in 'Lihaaf' was shocking in the 1940s. But to expose the upper class was an act of courage.

Alpana Chowdhury

· Dec 17, 2016 · 05:30 pm

The prophetic story of a village cursed to live without water for five years

Komal Swaminathan's classic play, which was staged in Chennai recently, feels oracular in an age when water scarcity is upon us.

Geeta Doctor

· Nov 27, 2016 · 11:30 am

Rang Parwaaz Mahotsav at Prithvi Theatre

Hindi theatre group Ekjute, which is helmed by actress and director Nadira Zaheer Babbar, is celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary with a series of plays.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 30, 2016 · 09:18 pm

Wedding Album

A wedding in a family digs up long-suppressed resentments in this English drama written by Girish Karnad and directed by Lillete Dubey.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 17, 2016 · 05:52 pm

Kambakht Bilkul Aurat

In this Hindustani play directed by Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa and Loveleen Misra enact Ismat Chughtai’s short stories Amar Bel, Nanhi Ki Naani.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 13, 2016 · 05:54 pm

‘I’m the opposite of Vishal Bhardwaj and Basharat Peer and how they imagined Hamlet in Kashmir’

A conversation with the award-winning theatre director Tim Supple on his relationship with literature.

Shreya Ila Anasuya

· Apr 11, 2015 · 05:30 pm