Theatre | Ho sakta hai do aadmi do kurslyan (Could Be 2 Men, 2 Chairs)
Paditak & Rikh presents:
Running Time: 75 minutes
Director(s): Vinay Sharma
Writer(s): Vinay Sharma
Cast: Shakil Khan & Vinay Sharma
Showing: Wed 25th Jun - Sun 29th Jun
Full: £5/8/10/12/15
Concession:£10/12
Language: Hindi
Using an ironic juxtaposition of humour with the tragic and the serious, Padatik and Rikh's ho sakta hai do aadmi do kurslyan, uses two chairs and two actors to tell a number of stories
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, ever-changing 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).
Press Comments
The language, light as a feather, tough, sparse or richly resonant, contains the scenes like a net of elastic. In a couple of scenes 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, Times Of India
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
Among the new genre of plays in Kolkata India Today
Performed in Hindi w/c 25 June and in English w/c 30 June
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