Trident!ty directed by Venkatesan Vaidhyanathan and Vishal Nayer, premiers in Benglauru this weekend. Staged by MISF!T (My Curiosity Stays Firmly in Theatre), the play is a trilogy, says Venkatesan over a name from Koramangala amidst rehearsals.
Tridenti!ty is a multi-genre play, says Venkatesan. “It’s set in three timelines — the Forties, the Nineteen Eighties, and 2010 and linked by a single thread. The primary story is a interval comedy, the second is a tragicomedy, and the third is a black comedy.”
Venkatesan has been concerned with theatre since his college days. “Vishal can also be a severe theatre practitioner, and each of us have labored with Ratan for practically 18 years.”
Venkatesan Vaidhyanathan
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The primary story facilities round a younger woman whose life is drastically altered throughout Partition, the second focuses on the tumultuous relationship between a pair and offers with the anxieties of the time (patriarchy, regressive ideas and id fixation), whereas the third is about in in an workplace and highlights workplace politics, energy struggles, and societal pressures on profession and private progress.
Venkastesan, who is part of MISF!T, offers credit score to its founder, the late Ratan Thakore Grant. “Ratan was a theatre persona who dazzled the audiences as an actor, choreographer, author, director and as a instructor. He believed that anybody can act with correct steerage and to implement that he began MISF!T in 2001.”
Grant began by conducting performing workshops, says Venkatesan. “He staged unique performs. Over a time frame, he taught 1000’s. The unique materials is the USP of MISF!T. We imagine our nation has a wealthy and numerous tradition, with so many tales, that may encourage us to write down unique performs fairly than doing pre-written Western performs.”
MISF!T is now managed by Grant’s college students, which incorporates Venkatesan and Vishal. “We handle the studio and likewise conduct performing programmes and performs. All of the actors chip in to create a narrative, script and direct. We have now theatre practitioners with us aged from 16 to 62 years. ”
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Earlier than Tridenti!ty, the studio staged Connectologues V3.0. “It was an attention-grabbing idea that Ratan created. It was an unique play.”
The solid and crew for Trident!ty Venkatesan says quantity 16. “All of us are working professionals, who meet up submit our day jobs and rehearse within the evenings. We had to surrender our unique studio house, so now we both hire a spot or meet up in one of many member’s properties for rehearsals.”
Tridenti!ty will characteristic Sumeet Sirohi, Raupya Viraktamath, Ujani Ghosh, Adarsh Shree Ram, Abhinav Singh Aakash, Tapas Agarwal, Eve, Akhil Parameswaran, Yash Agarwal, Ashish Verma, Kshema Shetty, Manjunath Gowda, Hrishita Brahma, Kavya Okay Subramanya, Gomathi Raveendran, Nazar Abul Hassain.
It will likely be staged on June 22 at Prabhath KEA Rangamandira Auditorium, at 3.30pm and seven.30pm. Tickets out there on BookMyShow.
