THEATRE : Max Mueller Bhavan / Goethe-Institut presents "Electronic City" English Play by Falk Richter - 29th & 30th September, 2007

  • Audio Interview of Director Amitesh Grover :

amitesh grover photgraph director electronic city play theatre
  • Time : 7 pm
  • Directed by : Amitesh Grover
  • Entry : limited passes available at Max Mueller Bhavan from 24th September onwards
  • contact Program Department at +91 11 23329508 extn. 292
  • entry strictly with passes only
  • Play Info : Tom and Joy: a neo-romantic love story from the start of the 21st century. Tom is a resilient and extremely flexible consultant whose only foothold is the porno channel in his hotel room. Tonight he is wandering around the corridors of a hotel complex and no longer knows where he is: Berlin, London, New York, Hongkong, Singapore. He thinks of Joy ...
  • Joy is a stand-in on the scanner-till of Prêt-à-manger International. Tonight around two she is standing at her little till at the airport, paralysed with panic. The scanner has broken down, the system collapses. She thinks of Tom ...
  • They fell in love while fighting over the last seat on a flight home to Berlin. They were arrested and locked up together; the start of a great love ... Now her life is being filmed in a real-time docu-soap".
  • (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz)
  • "Falk Richter's 'Electronic City' is a panic-stricken farce from the inner mental world of contemporary businesses.
  • (Franz Wille in: Theater Heute, 11/2003)
  • Amitesh Grover
  • Amitesh Grover has conceptualised, designed and directed 15 Performance Art pieces till date. His recent works include Memorable Equinox: a site specific multimedia performance held at The British Council, Delhi and I Hate My Body: a video installation and live performance presented at WCA, London. He is a graduate from The National School of Drama, India (2004) and a recipient of Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship for the Arts (2005). He also holds a master's degree in Live and Recorded Media from Wimbledon College of Art, University of Arts London, UK (2006). A visiting faculty member at NSD and a freelance artist at present, he is based in Delhi.
  • Falk Richter
  • Falk Richter is one of the most famous and successful present German dramatic advisors and stage directors. He has authored plays like "Gott ist ein DJ" (God is a DJ, 1998), "Das System" (The System, 2004) or "Die Verstörung" (The unsettlement, 2005). He has been working amongst others in Frankfurt, Zurich, Oslo, Atlanta and Amsterdam. Currently he is with the "Schaubühne" in Berlin, simultaneously cooperating with the state opera in Vienna and the opera of Tokyo.

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