Sunday, January 26, 2020

January in NY












January 2020

A weekend of Highline
Finding
The Falconer of Central Park and seeing brilliant productions for different reasons

The Slave Play
By Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O’Hara


The Inheritance Part 1 and 2
By Matthew Lopez
Directed by Stephen Daldry

Wozzeck
By Alban Berg
Production by William Kentridge

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2020

happy new year

Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu: Notes on an Unusual Cultural Conversation


Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu: Notes on an Unusual Cultural Conversation

Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu is an experimental production in which urban karnatic concert music and rural kattaikkuttu theatre artists collaborate on equal footing, ignoring the division of the Indian performing arts into “classical” and “folk.” Using music, language, and acting, the production addresses the blindness that prevents people, entrenched within their own cultural, social, and political ghettoes, from experiencing any art form with an open mind


Article in TDR published in September


Theatre in London in dec







December 2019

Saw two very different but wonderful productions in London
Whilst staying with my sister and family

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Directed by Marianne Elliot and Miranda Cromwell



Starring Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Suits, Selma) makes his West End stage debut as Willy Loman, with Olivier Award-winning Sharon D. Clarke as Linda Loman.


Touching the Void adapted by David Greig
Directed by Tom Morris


Plus Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square