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Theatre | Could Be 2 Men, 2 Chairs (ho sakta hai do aadmi do kursiyaan)

Paditak & Rikh presents:
Running Time: 75 minutes
Director(s): Vinay Sharma
Writer(s): Vinay Sharma
Cast: Shakil Khan & Vinay Sharma
Showing: Tue 1st Jul - Sat 5th Jul Full: £5/8/10/12/15
Concession:£10/15
Language: English

Think Osbourne and Pinter. This remarkable production has launched Vinay Sharma  into the forefront of modern Indian drama. Could be 2 Men, 2 chairs is a theatrical collage that explores modern urban life

This is not the exotic India of 'Heat and Dust' and 'Passage to India'. This is the new voice of India adjusting to the modern world with a speed that has never been experienced before and leaving in its wake questions for which there are not many answers.

Zooming in on fragments from different individual lives, these apparently unconnected stories are linked by the emotions born of love, loss and absence. The chairs become a mercurial, everchanging metaphor as the play intersects urban relationships and makes the implicit statement that we are given life to experience compassion not to inflict violence; and that those who do not recognize the fragility of life may succumb to either an inner decay or to a moment of rage which endangers society.

The play has had over 50 performances in Kolkata and has received standing ovations at the Mumbai Theatre Festival, Sudarshan Rang Mahotsav, Pune , Lucknow Natya Samaroh and at the Film and Television Institute of India (Pune)

The language, light as a feather, tough, sparse or richly resonant, contains the scenes like a net of elastic....... it becomes a sharp weapon in the hands of the characters, who tear themselves apart with it, till they stand before us bare and bleeding.

Shanta Gokhale, Mumbai Mirror

The intimacy and enforced small audiences give the work an extra edge....the effect is simultaneously abstract yet intense  Ananda Lal, The Telegraph 

Vinay Sharma has proven that not only is he one of the foremost theatre directors but also a playwright of high standing  Jansatta 

Both Shakil Khan and Vinay Sharma are actors filled with a limitless talent     Jansansar 

Could Be 2 Men and 2 Chairs will be performed in Hindi in w/c 25 June and in English in w/c 30 June