Return of old maestros
Ratna Pathak Shah and Naseeruddin Shah open with Ek Dastaan Ek Haqeeqat, writer Ashok Lal’s contemporary dastans replete with poetry, themes of religious harmony and justice.
ON November 4, 9 pm; November 5, 6 pm and 9 pm
Entry Rs 750 onwards
Drunken reveries
Makarand Deshpande will bring back his drunk avatar in this solo act, Piyakkad, that he calls “an insight into the true makings of a drunkard”. Deshpande gives us a sneak peek, saying, “It’s the story of three veteran drunkards that have changed my life.”
ON November 14; 6 pm and 9 pm
ENTRY Rs 750
Live laugh love
Manav Kaul’s new musical Pyar Aadmi Ko Kabootar Banaa Deta Hai, based on his book Prem Kabootar tells the story of three boys who fall in love and out of the ‘bro-code.’
ON November 6; 6 pm and 9 pm
ENTRY Rs 750
Snapshots of a romance
Ghanshyam Lalsa’s group brings to the stage three decades of a tender romance, through snapshots of a complex relationship in Khichik (Snapshots).
ON November 7; 6 pm and 9 pm
ENTRY Rs 750
Finding singularity
Unlike the premieres on show, Adishakti will be presenting the final run of their famed production, Brhannala — that first premiered 20 years ago on the Prithvi stage — based on the mythical episode from the Mahabharata on Arjuna’s transformation.
ON November 8; 6 pm and 9 pm
ENTRY Rs 500
Book this drama
Mahmood Farooqui (extreme right) and Poonam Girdhani’s Dastan-E-Ret Samadhi take Geetanjali Shree’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Tomb of Sand and transform it into a dastangoi performance.
ON November 9, 9 pm; November 10, 5 pm
ENTRY Rs 750
Heart of a family
Sachin Khedekar (seated) takes on the role of a disillusioned patriarch played by the late James Earl Jones and Denzel Washington in Feroz Abbas Khan’s Hind, the Hindustani adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences.
ON November 16, 6 pm and 9 pm; November 17, 5 pm and 8 pm
ENTRY Rs 750
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