| Date: | 13 March, 2010 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 03:30 PM - 05:30 PM |
| Where: |
Ranga shankara 113 36/2, 8th Cross, J P Nagar 2nd Phase Bangalore Zipcode: 560078 |
| Website: | http://www.indianstage.in |
| Phone: | 9880036611 |
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Sunil Shanbag began his career in theatre as an actor with director Satyadev Dubey’s Theatre Unit in Mumbai, and then tried his hand at designing lights and sets, assisting in direction and managing the group. In 1985 he formed Arpana, a theatre company, along with a few friends. Arpana has done a slew of productions in Hindi based on the work of contemporary Indian playwrights and Sunil has directed many of these plays himself.
(IFA made three grants to Sunil Shanbag. The first grant was for the creation of a theatre production that brought light to the suppressed history, subculture and marginalised lives of the mill workers of Mumbai, who lost their jobs en masse as a result of the textile strike in the 1980s called Cotton 56, Polyester 84. The second grant was for the dissemination of this production. Twenty performances of the play were staged for worker groups primarily in Mumbai and other places in Maharashtra in order to provoke new ideas and perceptions about their own identity and situation.
The third grant was for the research into theatre censorship in Maharashtra. Using Vijay Tendulkar’s banned play, Sakharam Binder, as a point of reference, the study investigates censorship in the larger context of the socio-cultural history of theatre, and looks into authoritarian state censorship as well non-state agencies’ agenda of silencing and suppressing theatrical expression. The result of this grant is the play-script of SX, MRALITY, AND, CENS*RSHIP.)Buy Tickets @www.indianstage.in or call 9880036611