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Vinay Varma
Vinay Varma is an Indian actor, script writer, and casting director who primarily works in Telugu and Hindi films. Career Vinay Varma, founder of Sutradhar started out as an amateur theatre practitioner. He has been involved with theatre for more than thirty years. He's also been a part of more than 15 feature films in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and a Hollywood film. He started his theater career with the play ''Coffee House Mein Intezar'' written by Dr. Laxminarayan Lal, on 14 September 1980. was directed by Dr. D.K. Goel. Varma left his lucrative Bank Officer job to pursue his passion. He believes,''"one life one passion"''. He has directed over 30 plays and acted in more than 50 plays with over 200 shows across India and abroad. Some of his performances are in ''Natasamrat'', ''Raktbeej'', ''Main Rahi Masoom'', ''Siyaah Haashiye'', ''Stronger Than Superman'', ''Main Nathuram Godse'', ''Death Watch'', ''Kanjoos Makkhi Choose'', David Mamet's ''Oleanna''. His play ''Main Ra ...
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Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the '' de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around artificial lakes, including the Hussain Sagar lake, predating the city's founding, in the north of the city centre. According to the 2011 Census of India, Hyderabad is the fourth-most populous city in India with a population of residents within the city limits, and has a population of residents in the metropolitan region, making it the sixth-most populous metropolitan area in India. With an output of 74 billion, Hyderabad has the fifth-largest urban economy in India. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah established Hyderabad in 1591 to extend the capital beyond the fortified Golconda. In 1687, the city was annexed by the Mughals. In 1724, Asaf Jah I, th ...
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Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by foreign tourists. It was ranked the ...
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Le Médecin Malgré Lui
''Le Médecin malgré lui'' (; "The doctor/physician in spite of himself") is a farce by Molière first presented in 1666 (published as a manuscript in early 1667) at le théâtre du Palais-Royal by la Troupe du Roi. The play is one of several plays by Molière to center on Sganarelle, a character that Molière himself portrayed, and is a comedic satire of 17th century French medicine. The music composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier is lost. Characters *Sganarelle, ''an alcoholic, gluttonous woodcutter'' (The title character) *Martine, ''Sganarelle's wife'' *Lucinde, ''Sganarelle's patient; daughter of Geronte'' *Léandre, ''Lucinde's lover'' *Geronte, ''a wealthy bourgeois; father of Lucinde'' *Valère, ''Geronte's educated servant'' *Lucas, ''Geronte's non-educated servant'' *Jacqueline, ''Lucas's wife and Geronte's non-educated feeder'' *Monsieur Robert, ''Sganarelle's neighbor'' *Thibaut, ''a country person'' *Perrin, ''a country person; son of Thibaut'' Synopsis Sganare ...
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Surendra Verma
Surendra Verma (born 7 September 1941) is a leading Hindi litterateur and playwright. He started out as a playwright, when his play ''Surya Ki Antim Kiran Se Surya Ki Pahli Kiran Tak'' (From sunset to sunrise, 1972) became quite well known; it has been translated into six Indian languages. He has had a long association with the National School of Drama.and has published about fifteen titles of short stories, satires, novels and plays. He has won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1993 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 vyas samman in 2016. Early life and education Born in Jhansi, he is an M.A. in linguistics. He has 4 brothers and a sister. One of his brothers, Ravindra Verma, also writes. So does his sister-in-law. Career He started his career as a teacher and soon started writing stories. His first play, ''Surya ki antim kiran sesurya kipahli kiran tak'' (From the Sun's Last Ray to the Sun's First Ray`) was premiered in Marathi by Amol Palekar in 1972. ''Nind Kyon Rat ...
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Sagar Sarhadi
Sagar Sarhadi (11 May 1933 – 22 March 2021) was an Indian short story and play writer, and a writer, director and producer for film. Born in Baffa (then in British India and now in Pakistan), he began writing Urdu short stories and then continued as an Urdu playwright. Sagar Sarhadi was Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at ICA - International Cultural Artifact Film Festival in 2019 by Ashghar Wajahat. He became popular in films with Yash Chopra's '' Kabhi Kabhi'' (1976), starring Amitabh Bachchan and Raakhee. He went on to write for films including ''Noorie'' (1979); ''Silsila'' (1981) starring Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri and Rekha; '' Chandni'' (1989) starring Rishi Kapoor, Sridevi and Vinod Khanna; ''Faasle'' starring Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval; '' Rang'' (1993) starring Kamal Sadanah and Divya Bharti and directed by Talat Jani; '' Anubhav'' starring Sanjeev Kumar and Tanuja and directed by Basu Bhattacharya; '' Zindagi'' (19 ...
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Shanker Shesh
Shanker Shesh was an Indian playwright, author, poet and story writer. Biography Shanker was born on 2 October 1933 in Bilaspur, Central Provinces and Berar, British India. He did his higher education in Nagpur and Mumbai. He got his Ph.D. from Nagpur University in 1964. Shesh was associated with theatre from 1956 and remained associated throughout his life. While being appointed as the Chief Hindi Officer of State Bank of India in Mumbai, he continued to do playwriting and other creative work. He was also fluent in Marathi Language and also translated some marathi plays in hindi. Shesh died on 28 October 1981 in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. Work Films Plays Awards and honors Shesh was honored with the Aashirwaad Award by the government of Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major citi ...
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Badal Sarkar
Sudhindra Sircar (Born 15 July 1925), also known as Badal Sarkar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he transformed his own theatre company, ''Shatabdi'' (established in 1967 for proscenium theatre ) as a third theatre group . He wrote more than fifty plays of which '' Ebong Indrajit'', ''Basi Khabar'', and ''Saari Raat'' are well known literary pieces. A pioneering figure in street theatre as well as in experimental and contemporary Bengali theatre with his egalitarian "Third Theatre", he prolifically wrote scripts for his ''Aanganmanch'' (courtyard stage) performances, and remains one of the most translated Indian playwrights. Though his early comedies were popular, it was his angst-ridden ''Evam Indrajit '' (And Indrajit) that became a landmark play in Indian theatre. Today, his rise as a prominent ...
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Pinki Virani
Pinki Virani (born January 30, 1959) is an Indian writer, journalist, human-rights activist and writer. She is the author of ''Once was Bombay'', ''Aruna's Story'', ''Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India'' (which won the National Award), and ''Deaf Heaven''. Her fifth book is called ''Politics of the Womb -- The Perils of Ivf, Surrogacy & Modified Babies''. Early life and education Virani was born in Mumbai, India, 30 January 1959, to Gujarati Muslim parents. Her father owned a shop, and her mother was a teacher. She attended school in Mumbai, Pune and Mussoorie. She went to the US to study for a Masters in Journalism on the Aga Khan Foundation scholarship. She did an internship at ''The Sunday Times'', where she reported extensively on the race riots in Britain. Career She started working as a typist at the age of 18. When she returned to India after her scholarship, she worked as a reporter and went on to become India's first woman editor of an evening paper. She mo ...
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The House Of Bernarda Alba
''The House of Bernarda Alba'' ( es, La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with ''Blood Wedding'' and ''Yerma'' as a "rural trilogy". Garcia Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish land" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). Garcia Lorca described the play in its subtitle as ''a drama of women in the villages of Spain''. ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' was Garcia Lorca's last play, completed on 19 June 1936, two months before Garcia Lorca's death during the Spanish Civil War. The play was first performed on 8 March 1945 at the Avenida Theatre in Buenos Aires. The play centers on the events of a house in Andalusia during a period of mourning, in which Bernarda Alba (aged 60) wields total control over her five daughters Angustias (39 years old), Magdalena (30), Amelia (27), Martirio (24), and Adela (20). The housekeeper (La Poncia) and Bernarda's elderly mo ...
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Agnes Of God
''Agnes of God'' is a 1979 play by American playwright John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth and insists that the child was the result of a virgin conception. A psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. The title is a pun on the Latin phrase Agnus Dei (Lamb of God). Synopsis The stage play concerns three main characters: Martha, the psychiatrist; the Mother Superior; and Agnes, the novice. There are no other characters on stage. All three roles are considered demanding for the actors playing them. Martha covers the full gamut of emotion during the play, from nurturer to antagonist, from hard nosed court psychiatrist and atheist to faith-searching healer. She is always on stage and has only three small respites from monologues or dialogue while Agnes and the Mother Superior enact flashbacks to events at the convent. The Mother Superior must expound the possibilities of miracles while recognizing the ...
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John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier (born February 23, 1949) is an American playwright and screenwriter. Life and career Pielmeier was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the son of Louise (Blackburn) and Len Pielmeier. He was raised Catholic. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Catholic University of America in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1978. He began his career as an actor, working with such repertory companies as Actors Theater of Louisville and the Guthrie Theater. In 1976, Pielmeier's first play, ''A Chosen Room'', was produced in Minneapolis. Three years later, '' Agnes of God'' was performed in a staged reading at the O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference in Waterford, Connecticut and won the 1979 Great American Play Contest. A full production was mounted for the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1980, and the Broadway production opened in March 1982 at the Music Box Theatre, where it ran ...
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Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad
Ravindra Bharathi is an auditorium located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was named after Rabindranath Tagore. History On 23 March 1960, the then Governor of Uttar Pradesh and a former Chief minister of Andhra State, Bezawada Gopala Reddy laid the foundation stone of the auditorium. The building was designed by Mohammad Fayazuddin, an alumnus of Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. Built during the birth centenary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore, the auditorium was constructed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for over a year. On 11 May 1961, former President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan inaugurated it to serve the cultural needs of the region. The inaugural program was a performance of Tagore's ''Mukta Dhara'' (The Waterfall) under the auspices of the Osmania University Dramatic Club as part of the celebrations of Tagore's centenary. The auditorium The auditorium continued to be maintained by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. In 2005, r ...
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