14 stories by "Vikram Phukan"
In 1971, in New York's SoHo neighborhood, a site-specific dance performance " one in which the 'site' in question encompassed a dozen rooftops over a roughly ten-block area " was staged by t…
Steadily gathering supporters online is a crowd-funding campaign that trains its specific energies on a frequently overlooked segment of India's vast marginalized populace: artists and artis…
One unexpected casualty of these beleaguered times is a relatively young arts organization that had only recently celebrated its eighth anniversary on February 29 (and because that's leap ye…
While it can never really supplant the vibrancy and vividness of live, in-the-flesh theatre, the showcasing of performing arts in the digital space has expectedly received a fillip over the …
Sudhanva Deshpande's book, Halla Bol remembers the legendary theatremaker and activist through a series of events that recall his life's worth. A book tour with a difference is currently mak…
For ensemble pieces in theatre, where actors never once leave the stage, what becomes all-important are the transitions between scenes " how the action, settings and mood segue in transformi…
In the play, Colors of Trans 2.0, when the transgender performer Living Smile Vidya bares her surgically reconfigured body in a moment of aching vulnerability, it induces gasps from on…
For fans of the whodunit as gradually unfolding conundrum rather than mere build-up to a climactic masterstroke, an Indian reboot of a British play based on the 1962 Agatha Christie novel,Â…
A staged legacy: Doyen of Marathi theatre, Shriram Lagoo gave life to political plays, worked in women's welfare and left behind a mark few could rival. Although widely acknowledged as a doy…
This year the stage threw up apostles of hope aplenty, whose quiet energy and presence allowed us to re-imagine our own lives in the sheer privacy afforded by a seat in a darkened auditorium…
An emerging sidelight at the annual Prithvi Theatre Festival is its selection of fringe offerings that are usually showcased at Prithvi House, a first-floor assembly space in the residential…
Anubha Fatehpuria will act out a miscellany of women characters, spanning more than a century in Pieces. Once again, in recent weeks, the free-thinking Virginia Woolf provides grist for the …
The legendary Habba Khatoun comes to life in Purva Naresh's Zoon, a play that attempts to give ordinary Kashmiris a voice, says Vikram Phukan. Circa 1989, as the errant flames of an inchoate…
Piyush Mishra's Gagan Damama Bajyo centers around the young freedom fighter's ideology of universal brotherhood, anarchism, atheism and fierce patriotism. The shenanigans of the past week ha…
