: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 7:00 AM IST
Quasar Thakore Padamsee talks about staging a Zoom edition of Nassim Soleimanpourâs absurdist play, White Rabbit Red Rabbit
The play involves no rehearsals, there is no director. A new actor performs in each show and the person is handed over the avant-garde script only once s/he is on stage facing the audience.
QTP and Natak Company on Saturday staged the digital version of Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpourâs internationally acclaimed play, White Rabbit Red Rabbit. Staged simultaneously in Hindi (by Jayati Bhatia), Marathi (by Pushkaraj Chirputkar) and English (by Mantra Mugdh) on Zoom, it was part of Aurora Novaâs worldwide initiative to mark the anniversary of the longest theatre shutdown in modern history through a global event, where the Berlin-based production company along with Soleimanpour invited theatre companies to White Rabbit Red Rabbit on March 13, 2021 at 8 pm across time zones.
2020, the year of resilience in theatre: Practitioners and institutions rose to the challenges of an unprecedented crisis The pandemic presented endless opportunities for theatrewallahs to rally together as a networked community beyond the usual barriers of geography or language. Vikram Phukan December 24, 2020 09:32:34 IST Representational image via Facebook/Drama School of Mumbai
For the theatre community, the last month of the year is usually a time for winding down, taking stock, balancing the books (sparse as they might be), and carefully putting away the implements of a year-long engagement with the practice. Then again, in this uncommon year, that was perhaps all one could do over months of uncertainties and speculation, spent milling in the uncanny limbo of an entire trade brought to a grinding halt by a super-spreading virus.