Schedule of Old World Theatre Festival

Schedule of Old World Theatre Festival

Plays at Epicentre : 
12th October : Bombay Talkies 
(110 min with 10 min interval) Wri & Dir.Vikram Kapadia. Hindi adaptation- Naushil Mehta. 
Cast. Namit Das, Sabiya Siddiqui, Shruti Vyas & Vikram Kapadia 
Viewing- Adults Only. 
Insightful and subtly provocative, hilarious and still poignant, Bombay Talkies takes you in to the lives, minds and hearts of eight unique but universal individuals. You may laugh at them and with them. Most importantly, you will recognise yourself and others you know and love, in them. 
13th October : 
7:30pm
Team Dastangoi presents Dastan-e-Betaal Pachisi & a dastan from Tilisme-e-Hoshruba 
(Urdu/2 hrs 45 min with 10 mins interval) Dir. Mahmood 
Farooqui Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain. 
Betal Pacheesi is one of India's oldest collections of tales woven around the theme of the King Vikram trying to capture Betal. The beauty of this play lies in its seamless mixture of Hindi and Urdu and the syncreticism of the medieval world that it conjures up where it is difficult to separate Hindu from Muslim, Urdu from Hindi and story from instruction. 
14th October : No Play
15th October : 
Untitled (Hindi & Eng/ 75mins). Dir Arvind Gaur. Performed by Lushin Dubey, co-actors and her puppets. “Nyari Nyari Maryada” the story by Vijayadan Detha, is also one …. Men who relentlessly treat women as “Kottputli’s”. Euripides “Medea” is, a play of dark revenge and slaughter and is dominated by the voice of “And therefore, in a sense “Killing” him and herself. The script of the play is a pendulous swing between two stories - Vijayadan Detha’s Nyari Nyari Maryada (where women surprise the men) and Dario Fo’s Medea(one of the most horrific and powerful Greek tragedies.- Medea, the foreign 
princess who aided Jason, her husband, in the past, and whom he now spurns for younger women. She retaliates by murdering her own children….. ) and touches upon pertinent aspects, giving a voice to the woman’s case!. 
19th October : Two To Tango Three To Jive (Hinglish/150min with interval) Dir.Saurabh Shukla. Prod. Ashvin Gidwani. Cast: Saurabh Shukla, Achint Kaur, Preiti Mamgain, Sadiya Siddiqui. 
Caught between continuing with his monotonous life and the enticing prospect of turning things around; this play chronicles Parminder Singh Sethis’s journey as it ebbs and flows with practical, comic, ambivalent, confusing and passionate tides. And what happens when three women enter the picture...complications galore or does his life take another twist? 
20th October : 7:30pm
Lal Ded (Hindi/Eng/Kashmiri/60min) Conceptualized & Enacted by Meeta Vasisht . 
Dir.Vishnu Mathur, Meeta Vasisht 
A play on the extraordinary and iconic LAL DED, the great woman mystic and poet of Kashmir of the 14th century, whose presence continues to reverberate in the Kashmiris’ heart and mind, both Hindus and Muslims, from seven hundred years ago right up to the present day. Tickets at Rs. 500, 400 & 300 available at the venue. Suitable for 18 years & above.

Plays at India Habitat Centre : 
11th October : 7:00pm
Team Dastangoi presents Dastan-e-Betaal Pachisi & a dastan from Tilisme-e-Hoshruba (Urdu/2 hrs 45 min with 10 mins interval) Dir.Mahmood Farooqui Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain. Betal Pacheesi is one of India's oldest and most popular collection of tales woven around the theme of the King Vikram who is trying to capture Betal. Beginning with versions in Sanskrit, especially the one in the 12th century Katha Saritsagar, different tellings of the stories can be found in Persian, Marathi, Tamil, Hindi and Urdu. The stories have passed into our collective folk repertoire some of which resurface in tales collected by Vijaydan Detha in Rajasthan. Our adaptation is based on the version created by Kazim Ali Vila and Shri Lalloo Lal ji Kavi, two legendary writers and performers associated with Fort William College Calcutta. The beauty of this telling lies in its seamless mixture of Hindi and Urdu and the syncreticism of the medieval world that it conjures up where it is difficult to separate Hindu from Muslim, Urdu from Hindi and story from instruction. With this hope we hope to return to oral rendition stories that were borne out of acts of recitation and listening but have been consigned merely to the written page for the last two hundred years. 
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12th October : 7:00pm
Team Dastangoi presents Dastan-e-Betaal Pachisi & a dastan from Tilisme-e-Hoshruba (Urdu/2 hrs 45 min with 10 mins interval) Dir.Mahmood Farooqui Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain. 
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13th October : 4:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Bombay Talkies (110 min with 10 min interval) 
Wri&Dir.Vikram Kapadia. Hindi adaptation- Naushil Mehta. Cast:Namit Das, Sabiya Siddiqui, Shruti Vyas & Vikram Kapadia 
Viewing- Adults Only. 
Insightful and subtly provocative, hilarious and still poignant, Bombay Talkies takes you in to the lives, minds and hearts of eight unique but universal individuals. You may laugh at them and with them. Most importantly, you will recognise yourself and others you know and love, in them. 
Tickets at Rs.400, Rs 300 & Rs 100 available Oct.2 onwards at the Programmes Desk for IHC members only. Open to all Oct.4 onwards. An Old World Culture Presentation
14th October : 6:00pm & 8:00pm
9 Parts Of Desire (Eng/75mins without interval) 
Dir: Lillete Dubey. Performed by Ira Dubey. 
A play based on nine stories of nine Iraqi woman post or during the war.The Play is embodying an argument of what liberation is for each of nine women. 9 Parts of Desire, inspired by the work of Geraldine Brooks and Heather Raffo, talks about the lives of nine Iraqi women that span the decades between the first and second Gulf Wars and occupation. Described as ``an example of how art can remake the world``, it is a portrait of the extraordinary (and ordinary) lives of a whole cross-section of Iraqi women: a sexy painter, a radical Communist, doctors, exiles, wives and lovers. This work delves into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in a country overshadowed by war.
VIEWING- Children below 12 years are not allowed. Tickets at Rs.400, Rs 300 & Rs 100 available Oct.2 
onwards at the Programmes Desk for IHC members only. Open to all Oct.4 onwards. An Old World Culture Presentation
15th October : No Play
16th October : 6:00pm & 8:00pm
Khatijabai Of Karmali Terrace (Eng/70min without interval). Based on Stella Kon’s Emily of Emerald Hill. Adapted & Dir.Quasar Thakore Padamsee .Performed by- Jayati Bhatia. Khatijabai of Karmali Terrace, is not just the story of one woman, but of all of us, trapped in lives that are not our own. It tells the story of an orphan Khatija, who marries into the Karmali household. From then on we follow her exploits, her vying for 'most favoured position' with her in-laws, the pressurising of her eldest son Aziz and her constant battles with sister in law Shiraz. Through the play Khatijabaiemerges as the powerful matriarch, wrapping everyone around her in 'the web of her providing', only to be left abandoned in her old age. Originally set in Singapore, this version has been set in the Khoja community of Bombay. The play opened in November 2004 at the prestigious Prithvi Theatre Festival and has been running successfully in Bombay, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Viewing- universal. Tickets at Rs.400, Rs 300 & Rs 100 available Oct.2 onwards at the Programmes Desk for IHC members only. Open to all Oct.4 onwards. An Old World Culture Presentation
17th October : 7:00pm
Scent Of A Man (Eng/100min with interval). Dir.Ash Chandler. Cast- Ash Chandler, Viewing - Adults Only. Tickets at Rs.400, Rs 300 & Rs 100 available Oct.2 onwards at the Programmes Desk for IHC members only. Open to all Oct.4 onwards. An Old World Culture Presentation
18th October : 7:00pm
Two To TangoThree To Jive (Hinglish/150 min with 10 min interval). Dir.Saurabh Shukla. Cast: Saurabh Shukla, Achint Kaur, Preiti Mamgain,Sadiya Siddiqui. 
Viewing- Adults only. Tickets at Rs.400, Rs 300 & Rs 100 available Oct.2 onwards at the Programmes Desk for IHC members only. Open to all Oct.4 onwards. An Old World Culture Presentation 
19th October : 7:00pm
Scent Of A Man (Eng/90min) Dir. Ashvin Gidwani Wri.Ivan Rodrigues Prod.Ashvin Gidwani Productions Cast:Ash Chandler, Bhavna Pani, Deven Khote, Suchitra Pillai. 
Set in present day Mumbai, The Scent Of A Man is a riotous & uproarious adult comedy on lust, lies and infidelity, pickled and flavoured with a generous dose of caustic repartees, sharp wit, sly asides and unbridled sarcasm.The action, centres on two married couples – Nikhil, a successful advertising executive and his intelligent, but slightly neurotic wife Mallika & Tupperware lady Ananya & her husband Partho, a teacher. This adult domestic comedy will have you in splits from curtain up to curtain down and it won’t belong before you start to recognise characters and situations that may have appeared in your own life as the action unravels and reaches a crescendo in the lovequadrilateral Welcome to ninety minutes of non-stop mirth! Tickets at Rs.400, Rs 300 & Rs 100 available Oct.2 onwards at the Programmes Desk for IHC members only. Open to all Oct.4 onwards. An Old World Culture Presentation
20th October : 4:00pm & 7:00pm
Two To Tango Three To Jive (Hinglish/150min with interval) Dir.Saurabh Shukla. Prod. Ashvin Gidwani. Cast: Saurabh Shukla, Achint Kaur, Preiti Mamgain, Sadiya Siddiqui. hat happens when the proverbial mid-life crisis knocks and then barges through the doors of Parminder Singh Sethi's mundane existence? Caught between continuing with his monotonous life and the enticing prospect of turning things around; this play chronicles Parminder's journey as it ebbs and flows with practical, comic, ambivalent, confusing and passionate tides. Each of us has a different way of dealing with a crisis. But how does Parminder, tangled in the web of mixed emotions and vexed choices, deal with his mid-life crisis? And what happens when three women enter the picture...complications galore or does his life take another twist? For better or for worse! What's guaranteed is that these flaming personalities when thrown together in the cauldron of life turn up the heat...leaving things more complex than ever... truly, it takes... TWO TO TANGO, THREE TO JIVE. 
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Main Event : Old World Theatre Festival at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road & Epicentre, Sec-44, Gurgaon > 11th to 20th October 2013