Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival|Hamara Circus Performed by Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust, India. Dir. Md Shameem
A series of small vignette where boy wants to gift his friend some flowers, the flowers take him on their journey through humorous incidents and foibles. A non-verbal performance with rod, objects and glove puppets.
Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
2nd Thur
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival|The Earth & The Universe (75mins) by Yas-e-Tamam Theater Group, Iran
A collection of 7 stories of the Molana Jalal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi, of life, learning, faith, freedom, Moses and miracles….
In the beginning, reality of life came down from the sky like a broken mirror, each part showed the essence of life... A lone cow lived on an island and ate to his content, realising he had eaten all the grass left he worries and looses weight. Next day the lord fills the dessert with greens and the cow does not even realize where it came from.
A harp player passed his whole life playing for people, who leave him in his old age, he forgets his maker who eventually showers his blessings on him.
A votary searches with a candle during the bright day, looking for a man, but this place is full of men? I am looking for a man who can control his anger and lust
Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
3rd Fri
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival| The Backyard Story (60mins) by Puppet Beings Theatre, Taiwan
There are some toys and clothes lying in the backyard, one day, a big red bloom come by and touch each of them… And then there's magic, the toys and clothes come alive… and have their own story's to tell.. Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
4th Sat
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival| Bozak Chini (The Goat & The Wolf) (60mins) by Parwaz Puppet Theatre, Afghanstan
Parwaz is the first independent puppet theatre ensemble in Afghanistan founded by young theatre professionals, reviving traditional stories and modern Afghani puppetry.
The greedy wolf joins forces with the Raven, Fox and Jackal to steal the little kids from mother goat, they do not foresee the brave mother goats efforts to find her children's murderers.
The blacksmith and others help her while the king Lion delivers a wise verdict that all animals should treat each other with fairness.
Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
5th Sun
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre festival|A Life In Her Day (60mins) by Hilary Chaplain, USA
Her Day is a wonderful mix of physical comedy and serious theatre about a Jewish woman in her publicly shared private world. An original amalgam of Lucille Ball and Charlie Chaplin, Hilary Chaplain is a quirky physical comedienne who exposes her most intimate moments as she chases the elusive promises of happily ever after. Audiences engage and participate in her wild theatrical antics and ultimately find themselves transported, moved and enriched by this extraordinary evening on the stage. Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
11th Sat
6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Caferati @ Epicentre- The Open Mike Series.
Perform your own work, in any of the languages of the National Capital Region. Poetry, fiction, diatribes, songs. It's all good. You get two minutes, and the microphone, the rest is upto you. Moderator: Danish Husain. Please contact the Programme Desk for more details.
12th Sun
7:30pm
Theatre|Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain in association with Lata Bhasin present a Dastangoi presentation of the Rajasthani folk story Chouboli (Urdu/70mins) Adapted & Dir. Mahmood Farooqui. Performed by - Danish Husain & Mahmood Farooqui. Based on the version created by Vijaydan Detha. Princess Chauboli has vowed that she will only marry a man that can make her speak four times in one night. Seventeen times twenty-four princes have tried and failed and are now rotting in the dungeon grinding fodder for horses. A brave and valiant Thakur, one who shoots 108 arrows through his wife's nose-ring every day, wishes to try his luck. What happens to him? How will Chouboli be won? Containing a story within a story within a story, some of them pan India favorites, Chouboli is a funny, bitter, sarcastic and lyrical take on Indian life. The repeat performance is happening after rave reviews and repeated requests from fans for the same. Tickets at Rs. 500 & 350/- available at the venue.
13th Mon
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival|Paper Cut (50mins) by Yeal Rasooly, Israel
Lonely Secretary remains in the office after all the others have gone home. From her little corner, using photos from film magazines she keeps hidden, she escapes into a world of daydreams. There she is a glamorous movie star from the 1940's and finds her ideal love at last. But as the story unravels, as imagination and reality collide, her romantic tale becomes a Hitchcock nightmare!
This one-woman show reveals the obsessions and dangers of Romantic fantasies. The language of black and white cinema is transformed to the "low–tech" universe of Paper Cut-outs and object theater, creating a tension that is absurd, painful and humorous.
Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
14th Tue
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival|Chick With A Trick (60mins) by Pro Rodopi Art Centre, Bulgaria
A production with puppets for children and family audiences. A Hen who lays a Bonbon instead of an egg, panic is and goes looking for advice to her friend the Duck, a doctor and to the King, but obsessed by their own troubles they do not pay attention to her problems.
Inspired by a beautiful sunny day and by the children, the hen convinces herself that there is nothing wrong if one does something unusual and different, specially if it brings joy to someone, for instance to the children and also maybe to their parents…
Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
15th Wed
7:30pm
Ishara Puppet Theatre Festival|The Circus Stachamoose (60mins) by Your Mans Puupet-Tommy Baker, Ireland
Introduces us to the theatrical delights from the intrepid Stachamoose brothers,
These suspiciously similar-looking brothers display an energetic mix of physical comedy and manual dexterity using a nicely balanced blend of mischievous humour and accomplished puppeteer skills.
Vlado, the magician, is the sombre, enigmatic master of arts of varying degrees of darkness, while Elmer is, in Bob Dylans' memorable phrase, really just a song-and-dance man.
Tickets at Rs. 250/- available at the venue. Book Online
18th Sat
7:30pm
Theatre|Dragon Of The Winds by Carson Wright (Eng/40mins) Dir. Gouri Nilakantan Mehta Prod. Platform for Action in Creative Theater,
Based on a Japanese folk tale the Dragon of the Winds is a comedy that enthralls adults and children alike. A small sleepy village is excitedly awakened by the news of special visit of a dragon. News spread far and wide and many including a geisha and a samurai come to attend this happy occasion. Is it a hoax to hood wink the people set up Honazo and Uji or is for real. Watch and see the comic turn of events.
Ek Khayali Bimar (Himdi/45mins) Dir. Gouri Nilakantan Mehta Prod. Platform for Action in Creative Theater,
This play is an adaptation of Moliere's Imaginary Invalid. Omesh Gupta (Monsieur Ardin), the imaginary invalid is a thorough hypochondriac. His daughter, Sikha (Angelique) is in love with a young man by the name of Rahul (Cleante). But Omesh Gupta insists that she shall marry a man of his choosing, the son of a doctor and a doctor himself, Naveen Chawla (Thomas Defois). Urmila, (Toinette) the maid and Ramesh (Beralde), Omesh's brother does everything possible to dissuade Omesh in his determination to marry Sikha to the stupid Naveen. Bhavna (Beline), Omesh's shrewish second wife is determined that Sikha, her step daughter, is sent away to her aunt's house, so that she, Bhavna can inherit his estate. By many a tricks Bhavna's plan is revealed to Omesh by Urmila and Ramesh Gupta. They are thus successful in getting the content of Omesh Gutpa to marry his daughter Sikha to Rahul and to persuade Omesh to become a doctor himself.
Tickets at Rs.350, 250 & 150 available at the venue
