Pra.Ka.Sam announces its 10th production – “Katha Sangama”
6th inhouse production for Kengal Hanumanthaih Kalasoudha
Audition date & time: Sunday 7th October 3 30PM to 8PM
Venue: K H Kala Soudha, Ramanjaneya Temple Compound, Hanumantha Nagar, Basavanagudi, Bangalore
Contact #: Kumarswamy on 7259998222/333
Bangalore, October 7th , 2012 - The auditions for the play will be held on Sunday 7th October 3:30 PM to 8 PM at K H Kala Soudha, Ramanjaneya Temple Compound, Hanumantha Nagar, Basavanagudi, Bangalore – 560019. Interested actors can also send in a mail with their photograph and reasons why they would like to be a part of the play to prakasamtrust@gmail.com or khkalasoudha@gmail.com. We will get in touch with them for the auditions. For further information, please log on to http://www.prakasamtrust.org/kathe or call Kumarswamy – 7259998222/333.
There has been a trend of short plays in the modern time of timelessness. We are so used to instant food, job, friendship, money we are also bombarded with requests for short plays. We now have successfully prepared the “Bouquet of Stories” exclusively for you. The play is in Kannada and the exquisite selection of the stories will make you want more. With eight Jnanapeth Awards and stalwarts to choose from we had to read more than 120 short stories written between early 1930’s to 2011 to arrive at this unique bouquet.
We sincerely hope that you will have a blast watching this as we have creating this performance piece for you. We enclose a small brief below of the stories to give you a better idea of the performances.
We have interwoven six stories, running around the universally famous emotion of love. But here we have designed a bouquet of stories around different gradients of love – to please, to formulate, to differentiate, to appreciate, to perform and to empower.
All the six plays will be produced by Pra.Ka.Sam & the Chief Direction and Conceptualization will be by P D Sathish Chandra. The stage adaptations of the stories are done by Chandan Shankar.
The 6 stories will be directed by 6 young budding theatre enthusiasts. The details as below. The characters mentioned below every story are the roles for which you can audition. Auditions are open for 22 on-stage cast & backstage crew.
Anjappana Koli Kathe – Maasthi Venkatesha Iyengar
Story of Anjappa’s chicken – Love to Perform
Director: Chandan Shankar
Characters: Anjappa, Rangappa, Beautiful lady, Her Mother in Law and Magistrate
Vaniya Samasye – Kodagina Gowramma
Vani’s Problem - Confusions of Love
Director:
Characters: Vani, Dr Ratna and Indira
Innondu Mukha - Tha Ra Su
Another Face - Fatal Love
Director: P D Sathish Chandra
Characters: four friends, Lady car owner & her driver
Shukrachaarya – Bagalodi Devaraaya
Shukracharya - Power of love
Director: Monish Nagaraj
Characters: Ashwatthama, Wife, Daughter, Nanda, Jamindar, Brahmin, Villagers
Kambaara Veerabhadrachari Joyisanaagiddu – Goruru Ramaswamy Iyengar
Veerabadrachari the Blacksmith becomes a Priest - Love for Work is Love for Life
Director: Santosh BS
Characters: Veerabhadra, His Wife, Priest, Villagers.
Dhanvantari Chikitse – Kuvempu
Dhanvantari’s treatment - Country’s True Love
Director: Vidya Venktatram
Characters: Vishwamitra, Parashurama, Narada, Farmer, Doctor, Joysa, Dhanvantari, Citizens
Director’s Note : P D Sathish Chandra
We come out with unique ideas every time keeping in mind building audiences to come and watch a play and also to encourage new talent. Auditions are our way of getting youngsters enthused and engaged in a noble act such as theatre. What I have noted largely in the past five years is that there is a fixed set of audiences for both Kannada & English theatre productions. Wherever there is a production we have the same set of audiences watching the play at different venues and more than 70% of the audience is repeated. This is not an encouraging development for healthy theatre, as we are not adding new audiences. This also stands out as the main difference between theatre in Bangalore and in other theatre-rich cities. As an old school theatre enthusiast, just mentioning or discussing this point was not enough for me. I felt a need and desire to do something about bringing back the masses into theatre. Other large theatre groups are staging the same old Shakespeare, Karnad, Karanth and the likes. My discussions with various theatre groups and eminent personalities led me to figure out a way for myself.
About P D Sathish Chandra
P D Sathish Chandra of Pra.Ka.Sam Trust has been working with different theatre groups from India at different times. He currently runs Kengal Hanumanthaiah Kala Soudha as its Director and aims to run the place to encourage new talent and to bring out performances that are fresh and unique. He is currently acting as Paddu in Panduranga Vittala, a Kannada sitcom, on Zee Kannada. He is also known for his theatre columns in newspapers and with special reference to the Sunday reviews in The Times of India.
About Pra.Ka.Sam
Pra.Ka.Sam (Pradarshana Kalaa Samsthe) is a trust created with the sole intention of promoting, nurturing and creating new works of performing arts. Pra.Ka.Sam literally means an organisation for performing arts. This is the non-profit unit of Fourth Corner Consultants which has been constantly working in media and fields related to performing arts since 2002.
About K H Kala Soudha
Kengal Hanumanthaiah Kala Soudha, popularly known as KH Kala Soudha (KHKS), is THE place to perform. The auditorium is centrally located and welcomes a variety of performing arts. Designed by renowned architects and built by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), this place stands conspicuous amidst the serene environs of the Ramanjaneya temple. This auditorium hosts dance, drama, music and movies. With a view to address the dearth of affordable places, we dedicate KHKS to Bangalore’s culturally-rich citizens and connoisseurs of art.
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