'Beyond the Land of Hattamala' Returns...

Our Theatre Company is happy to announce the staging of second edition of the well acclaimed play ''Beyond the Land of Hattamala". The play originally written by Badal Sircar in 1970s is carved by the Director in a beautiful way that it also suits the modern world.

With better experiences in the field of theatre Director Vivek Vijayakumaran and the actors are set to gift the audience a feel of something that they can take home and retrospect. The dialogues in the play are in Kannada, Hindi, English which is suited for all ages and is entertaining with commendable jest and childishness.

The actors and director had taken a journey to Anegondi Village, near Hampi to experience the realm known as 'Beyond'. Being so much with the natural elements water-earth-air-sky-fire, the journey has been so fruitful that the entire crew has come back with a heart full of 'Beyond' experiences and they are just waiting to portray it in the play.

About the writer:
Badal Sircar is a veteran playwright and director who has pioneered an indigenous ‘theatre of conscientization’, a theatre of natural environment, physical acting, slogans and familiar sounds, documentary material and sustained movement. He is an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, mostly known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s. A pioneering figure in street theatre as well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre. The creator of "Third Theatre", he also remains one of the most translated Indian playwrights.

About the Play:
Imagine. Can there be a place where everyone is content with their choices and has achieved a state of happiness? Can there be a place where everyone works with no concept of money? Can there be happy co-existence or is that a purely romantic rhetoric notion? Why do we purport to the existence of such a place? The possibility of imagining such an “unreal” is rooted in the presence of the real which is the here and now.
Beyond the land of Hattamala is a play with a “ Childs Heart ” and “Two Thieves”. It attempts at asking certain fundamental questions taking recourse to an “imagination of the other” which itself has been shaped by our existence in the real.

Kenappa and becha jump into a river to escape being caught. They wash up on the shores of a land 'beyond.....', where buying and selling are alien concepts.The two thieves unable to understand the concept of “no-money” journey through several funny misadventures to question and answer difficult questions.

We hope that you can be a part of the audience to make the journey with Kena and Becha in the land of 'Beyond'.

About the Director:
Vivek Vijayakumaran is a young theatre artist. He trained with Mahesh Dattani while essaying the role of Anarkali, a hijra, in the play Seven Steps Around the Fire. Vivek’s training includes a workshop at AdiShakti Theatre Arts Laboratory and a year long project with Abhishek Majumdar for the play Lucknow ’76. Vivek has also undertaken training at the Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts and the Kalari Academy of Performing Arts in contemporary dance and kalaripayattu. Vivek currently works with women in slums and children at Head Start school as a theatre facilitator. He is also a storyteller with Kathalaya.

Cast:
Ashok Vasudevan
Samta Shikhar
Meher Taj
Vinay Kumar
Akshay Gandhi

Live Music:

Kallol Dasgupta
Shyam Chand

Duration : 90 Mins

Show :

4th Mar - Friday - 8 PM

5th Mar - Saturday - 8 PM

6th Mar - Sunday - 3:30 PM & 6:30 PM

Venue :

Jagriti Theatre

Ramagondanahalli,

Varthur Road

Whitefield

Bangalore

Tickets at:

online : http://www.indianstage.in/

telebooking : 9886324733

Price: 250/-