Pierrit's Open Air Theatre Festival -- Sept 28 – Nov 2, 2008 -- to be held at ashok Theatre, The Ashok, Chankayapuri , New Delhi
It, succinctly speaking, offers Delhiwalas ‘the best of theater in the best of weathers’, comprising all time hits of the troupe: Of all the possible genres; in as many as four languages, and, most important of all, including two different plays on Mirza Ghalib – an insane account of the poet in GHALIB IN NEW DELHI and an insightful account of him in GHALIB
The first ever play on life, times and scholarship of Maulana Azad. A wonderful solo performance by Tom Alter: The biggest casting coup in the history of Indian theater.
A vivacious account of the life and times of MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB, punctuated with a lot of historical anecdotes and episodes that make you come back home thoroughly entertained. The play stars TOM ALTER and others.
Kaleidoscope has over the last 2 years, been developing a 360 degree vision of the Mahabharata, the greatest story ever told. This research involving academics, artists, designers has given us an understanding of the contemporary relevance of this epic & the need for our youth to be exposed to it.
KarnaThe Mahabharata has been a repository of a vast number of stories portraying the endless range of human emotions of intrigue, guile, jealousy, love and also of a great sense of the play of destiny in human life, bringing forth a deeper & higher philosophy through the rendition of the Gita.
PIERROT’S TROUPE Presents A Private Affair- (Hindi Comedy).
Geeta Thadani, a psychiatrist, arrives in Delhi with her secretary
(read ‘psychiatry’) Anil to deliver a lecture on split personality.
Next day, she forgets to move out and stays on in the bedroom of a
suite of a five-star hotel. Anil, who was stitching her torn skirt in
the drawing room, goes into the bedroom with Geeta