There’s a one-man play in Gujarati, a theatre adaptation of lesser-known poem by Shakespeare, and a twist on a work by Kalidas. Regardless of when they were written, all the plays have some relevance to the way we live now, says Tasneem Vahanvaty, manager of the theatre programme at the NCPA. “At the same time, they have humour, thrills, drama and comedy.”Ulka Mayur’s I, Cloud, gives Kalidas’s Meghdoot a contemporary spin. A poet, jailed for his words, uses iCloud to share his banned verse across social media, in a timely comment on freedom, creativity and censorship. British theatre director Paul Goodwill will also debut his Lucrece at Centrestage, a retelling of Shakespeare’s 1594 narrative poem Rape of Lucrece, which is set in ancient Rome but explores the universal themes of rape, shame and trauma.

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 15:22 UTC