Talk Of Indian Cinema - Part - 26 – 26th March 2022

 

 

 

Hello Guys, How are you all. We are back with again our favorite column Talk of Indian Cinema on 4th Sunday of March. I’m warm welcoming to all on the last weekend of Awesome March. Tomorrow is 27th March and tomorrow very special day for all the artists because tomorrow is World Theatre day. Every artist who play their character its base on the stage and theatre. Theatre is not easy but it’s an art. It’s taught a lot. I really proud on myself to be part of this theatre. It really inspire me a lot and taught me a lot.

 

World Theatre Day was initiated in 1962 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). It is celebrated annually on 27 March by ITI Centres and the international theatre community. Various national and international theatre events are organized to mark this occasion. One of the most important of these is the circulation of the World Theatre Day International Message through which at the invitation of ITI, a figure of world stature shares his or her reflections on the theme of Theatre and a Culture of Peace. The first World Theatre Day International Message was written by Jean Cocteau (France) in 1962. It was first in Helsinki, and then in Vienna at the 9th World Congress of the ITI in June 1961 that President Arvi Kivimaa proposed on behalf of the Finnish Centre of the International Theatre Institute that a World Theatre Day be instituted. The proposal, backed by the Scandinavian centers, was carried with acclamation.

Now I want to share my all time favorite top 10 Theatrical play with you and its listed below.

1.     Hamlet by William Shakespeare : There's sublime poetry, rich psychology for characters of both sexes, a hefty dose of comedy to leaven the mood, and, depending on a director's interpretation, a crackling good mystery lying underneath the tale of "The Melancholy Dane." 

 

2.     Death Of Salesmen by Arthur Millar : "Attention must be paid." Indeed. Not just to Willy Loman and the sad realities of his life as a mediocre traveling salesman and the delusions that barely keep him afloat, but also to Miller's exquisite modern tragedy about an average Joe. 

 

3.     Look Back in Anger by John Osborne : This 1956 drama did just that as it took middle age (mostly) out of playwriting and instead offered up a picture of life among a group of discontent British twentysomethings, pulling English drama out of parlors, dining rooms, and genteel patios, and into cramped inner-city apartment squalor. Long live the "angry young man play."

 

4.     Uncommon Women & Others By Wendy Wasserstein : Wasserstein won the Pulitzer for The Heidi Chronicles, but well before that look at life in post-feminist America she wrote this touchingly funny play about a group of Mount Holyoke alums traversing feminism's second wave. As the piece works backward through time from 1978 to 1972, what emerges is a cunning portrait of women during a period when possibilities seemed both infinite and curiously limited.

 

5.     This is our Youth By Kennenth Longergan : Lonergan's play about a trio of young people hanging out, squabbling over a coke deal, and looking for some sense of direction in the early years of the Reagan era follows in the footsteps of the British "angry young man" plays.

 

6.     Playboy of the Western World By J.M. Synge : The Aristotelian notion that a tragic hero needs to be noble gets thrown out the window in this play about a man who's heralded as a hero for having killed his father in self-defense only to be reviled by those who had cheered him when it turns out the old man was only wounded. 

 

7.     Awake & Sing By Cliffold Odets : Tensions run high in this play about three generations of a Bronx Jewish family and each one's pursuit of the American Dream. Can one achieve it while also remaining true to one's heritage? It's a question that immigrants have had to ponder in any decade, and as evidenced by the NAATCO revival in 2015 this kitchen-sink drama poignantly transcends race and religion.

 

8.     Romeo & Juliet By William Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays.

 

9.     The School for Scandal By Richard Brinsley :  The School for Scandal is, if not the most original, perhaps the most finished and faultless comedy which we have. When it is acted, you hear people all around you exclaiming, "Surely it is impossible for anything to be cleverer." The scene in which Charles sells all the old family pictures but his uncle's, who is the purchaser in disguise, and that of the discovery of Lady Teazle when the screen falls, are among the happiest and most highly wrought that comedy, in its wide and brilliant range, can boast. Besides the wit and ingenuity of this play, there is a genial spirit of frankness and generosity about it, that relieves the heart as well as clears the lungs. It professes a faith in the natural goodness as well as habitual depravity of human nature

 

10.  The Women By Clare Booth  Luce : The Women is a 1936 American play, a comedy of manners by Clare Boothe Luce. The cast includes women only.The original Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 657 performances with an all-female cast that included Margalo Gillmore, Ilka Chase, Betty Lawford, Jessie Busley, Phyllis Povah, Marjorie Main, and Arlene Francis.

 

So guys this was some of the my favorite play. Out of this all some of I seen , some of I read. I’m sure many of this play you never heard but you can see this on youtube or personally connect me for more details. Meanwhile good bye and take care. You can contact me anytime for any topic or discussion. Contact me via my social media and blogs. Me or my team will revert you soon. For Further discussion I m sharing my Social Media Links to you.

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