William Shakespeare
Theatre is still quite significant and ever-evolving: &TV’s theatre-artists turned TV actors on ‘World Theatre Day’
Quoting William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” On World Theatre Day, theatre artists turned television actors, currently seen on various shows on &TV, share their undying love for theatre and their fond memories. These include Vibhuti Narayan Mishra (Aasif Sheikh) and Manmohan Tiwari (Rohitashv Gour) of Bhabiji Ghar Par | Click Here...
Shakespeare and the Hindi Theatre
The East, especially the Indian film industry, drawing inspiration from the West is not a new thing. So, it is not entirely a surprise that the Hindi Theatre has time and again, borrowed ideas from none other than the Bard, William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare has not been around for more than 450 years and yet, his plays are performed across the world in multiple languages. Hindi theatre is no exception. A survey conducted by the Indian National Library of Calcutta in 1964 shows numbers that prove that Shakespeare’s presence was felt across the length and breadth of India even | Click Here...
Everything that makes Indian Theatre more special
Theatre as a creative art form has existed much before the establishment of the Indian film industry. It is believed that it was Alexander the Great’s conquest of India that gave way to the establishment of the Sanskrit theatre. Though it was briefly discouraged and forbidden in the 10th and 11th centuries, the Indian theatre industry has been extensively influenced by the major cultures of the world that found their way here. The Indian theatre culture, that is believed to have emerged in the 4th century B.C., is over 5,000 years old. Since then, the purpose of the drama has varie | Click Here...