Aadayam
Initiative
24/2/2015
Vickram Kapadia’s Masque will do a modern
retelling of one of Shakespeare’s most riveting tales of romance and revenge,
generosity and greed: The Merchant of Venice. Set to open
on February 27 at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA, this new play
will also see the debut of Aditya Birla Group’s Aadyam initiative.
Aadyam, an initiative by the Aditya Birla
Group, is bringing 5 new plays from highly reputed theatre groups, to coveted
venues in Mumbai and Delhi. Crafting a holistic experience for each play that
extends beyond the stage, Aadyam will reword our understanding of the
process of watching a play, and through this, take theatre to newer audiences. Committed
to producing performances of quality, Aadyam is working towards
becoming India’s gateway to artistic expression for meaningful experiences and
capacity audiences. Aadyam is making its foray first with theatre and intends to extend its
interests to other forms of the performing arts.
The Merchant of
Venice is
a universal tale showcasing human beings’ propensity for love and hatred,
generosity and greed, forgiveness or the lack of it, a satire on society then
and now. Director Vickram Kapadia who launched his banner Masque in 1987, first
directed the challenging Luigi Pirandello play Six Characters in Search
of an Author. This was followed by landmark productions like AR 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 among others. 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.
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