Vickram Kapadia, who
launched Masque in 1987, first directed the challenging Luigi Pirandello
play Six Characters in Search of an Author. This was followed by
landmark productions like A.R.Gurney’s The Dining Room, David Henry
Hwang’s Dance and the Railroad, Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq,
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Eduardo Elba’s Marathon.
In 1998 and 2001, the
company collaborated with two other theatre producers - Rage and Ohinniyan – to
create the hugely successful Going Solo
evenings -- a series of monologues.
Masque ventured into the
world of Hindi theatre in 2013 with the Hindi version of Bombay Talkies,
which Vickram had written and directed in English for the company Orchid Room
Experiment in 2011.
The group recently premiered
The Merchant of Venice under the Aadyam initiative.
On 7 June premiered Black with Equal
starring Utkarsh Mazumdar, Suhita
Thatte, Dinyar Tirandaz, Jaimini Pathak, Raja Sevak, Dilnaz Irani,
Daniel D’Souza, Seema Mishra, Jayesh More, Ajay Jayram and Vickram Kapadia.
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