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| THEATER PRODUCTIONS | ||
| RangaAayama | ||
| About Fourth Corner Productions | ||
| My Affair | ||
| For Sanket | ||
| For Black Coffee | ||
| For Company Theatre | ||
| First Production | ||
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Our first production is on and all over the place, this is the first time I have ventured into something called "theatre production and management", that is to produce, direct, publicize, an entire production ALL BY MYSELF!!. Till Ranga Shankara came to Bangalore I had taken a break from any form of theater for three years. The only touch I had was to write about it in newspapers. But theatre is like weed you cant get over it at all! So this time back with big bang!! The stand up comedy is called Keetale (meaning mischief) with one of Kannada TV/Film's comedy star Sihi Kahi Chandru. His sensible comedy on ETV Kannada, Paapa Pandu and Silli Lalli, have won the hearts of many million Kannadigas. Our other play Ammavra Ganda has seen eight house full shows and going on strong. Next production Bembidada Bhootha is on its way. Check out Theatre Page for more details. |
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| RangaAayama - 6 Day Theatre Festival | ||
| About Fourth Corner Productions | ||
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Sathish heads
Fourth Corner Theatre Productions, Fourth Corner Production is the dream child of many years conception and practical experience of theatre. This group is a collective of theatre people from different strata of Theatre People. There are directors, actors, technicians, designers, writers and producers who are part of theatre scene for more than a decade. This group strives and works with the old school concept of theatre which plainly believes in entertaining the audiences. To make it simple its
2 E's - To Enthuse & To Entertain. Although in existence from 2000 this group was in conceptual stages from 1995
after Nenasam and Rangayana interactions. The early years of Fourth Corner was mainly into assisting other groups with publicity, marketing and back stage. Experience and love of theatre has made its existence a fruitful truth. |
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| My Affair | ||
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My affair with Theater started way back in High School and College Days, it was not until 1989, I got my first chance to be on Amateur Stage. From then till now its been a long journey through reviewing, critiquing and even sweeping the stage before the performance. This has been my first love and still remains the same. My writing skills were put to use in every production ranging from promotional material to play summaries. Slowly but steadily I got involved with professional theatre groups in city and did many productions all over country. My responsibilities included set design, script writing, acting and direction. Will be putting up more and updating this page with information of my ever lasting affair! Due to sheer neglect and no interest in documentation I can not present the plays I was a part of in the past. Till Khel for Black Coffee in July 2004. I broke the jinx of not acting from 2001 January with this production. More so I have dedicated my PhD programme "Theater as Communicator, in Modern Times", trying to realise the fact that theater still is the best way for communication or to put in better words wins more points over any other modern communication tools like TV, Cinema etc. |
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| FOR BLACK COFFEE | ||
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I acted as constable Ratnan Lal, a dud and will do what inspector says; guy who ends up killing a man as per inspectors orders. This picture to the right just taken during rehearsals show the intensity we were in when we were rehearsing. My director Preetham Koilpillai called my first round of thrashing as WWF style. I then turned to little stronger and original beating Sanjeev the other guy in the picture got thrashed so badly that he stopped wishing me. The play was well received and the best complement I got was when a girl walked up to me after the play and said are you from north India? (for people who don't know I am a purebred Bangaloreian), that made my day. This play was also done with no script, by improvising on the lines every day. This play also improved my vocabulary of bad words in Hindi! Well there was too much of it at least for Sanjiv. Will look forward to do this again for the fun of kicking ass at least!! LOL |
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| FOR COMPANY THEATER | ||
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I was playing as Gogibious in "The Flying Doctor" the Molier famous French playwright, who is well known for his comedies. This time the director was Atul Kumar (remember the lead character from the song PAISA in the music video of Aagosh? yes its him) who took me in since I suited the role too well. well I hope he thinks that I did some justice if not complete!. Had fun with to crew hmm I still remember every one on the stage asking me to sit down and I was happily smiling away at them to realise that I had not sat down in the next coming minute adding up to huge confusion. But at the end of the day it was nice fun and that too after realising from the audience that it was a fantastic show! That is something we actors live for you see!! You would see me and Vivek Madan (who slapped me really hard on stage!) |
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| FOR FORUM iii | ||
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I had not sung in plays other than Kannada till this play "Mareech The Legend". This play is about the demon Mareech who gets victimised in Ramayana by the Demon king ravana and plays an important role in abduction of Rama beloved Sita in Hinduisms greatest epic Ramayana. We performed two versions, one street play and three inside the auditorium in the usual Bengali Jatra style. Coming back to what I did in the play - Imagine a Kannadiga singing in English with Bengali music composition. Well that sounds terrible but it did woo away the full house at Ranga Shankara. I was appreciated by one and all to my and to my director Ranjon Goshal's surprise. I even got e mails and many hits on this page after the production. Now I have the confidence of singing in any language and would not mind doing 1000 rehearsals of the same song. I should thank Gopal (mandolin) and Kiron Da (harmonium) for supporting me when the Director was blaming me for not singing in tune! Without them my voice would have gone dead and all the starting notes to fly out to moon. Also I should thank my music loving family members who from childhood put me to the habit of listening to classical music. |
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M C Preetham came in and gave me an option of reviving my old stand up comedy. This was the one which I used to in late 90's. Well it was my favorite since it was about and around the city I live in Bangalore. Moreover keeping me as the most experienced theatre guy he did make some mistakes, well I took on the Kannada pieces which really worked with the first show. I fell in love with the audience when they laughed at all my vernacular jokes. The show went on well with all our preparedness but thanks for the good call of the technical rehearsal without which we would surely have had got tomatoes and rotten eggs from the crowd. But now if you ask them they would tell you what a show!!! |
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| For Sanket | ||
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Neenaanadre Naaneenena
Based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors was staged in
Rangashankara from 18 to 23 April 2006. It had huge star cast
including Srinivasaprabhu, Sihikahi Chandru, Jehangir (papa pandu),
Lakshmi Nadagowda, Veena, Venkatachala and our own Srinath Vasistha. |
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I have not mentioned other ventures which were not of importance here. But I will be available to anyone interested in doing theatre and will be of assistance in any form required. |
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