Report by Santanu Ganguly: The Arshinagar Project and First City, present The Ghosts of Shakespeare-Hosted by Zorba the Buddha, Performance: Macbeth in the Mountains on Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
Ghosts of Shakespeare is an annual festival that is meant to confront the world of Shakespeare from the vantage of Indian performance idioms and aesthetics, as well as contemporary subjectivities and lived experience. It is meant to exist, both physically and metaphorically, in marginal spaces. This means that it intends to explore non-traditional venues, including open and public spaces, as well as reach out to genres other than traditional theatre, such as dance, performance art, street theatre and other forms of theatre activism, and genres which defy any easy categorization. It looks at Shakespeare not as an icon of elitism, but a living talisman of protest and humanistic articulation, and hence embraces artistic actions that articulate disturbing and perhaps unpopular truths about the world and times we inhabit.
The festival reflects the fact that Shakespeare has a contemporary afterlife in often unexpected forms. The spirit of it deliberately draws upon the anarchic ethos of small-scale, alternative fringe festivals in different parts of the world. We are interested in creative acts which are not big and well-funded, but rather which have rough-edges and are vulnerable. We'd like to bring together established names, emerging artists, as well as campus outfits on the same platform, without creating hierarchies. We are interested in the Shakespeare of in-betweens: between past and present, between east and west, between the sacral and the scatological - a sort of liminal Shakespeare.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2013; 7–8 pm
It is a walk in event. No Prior Registration Required.
Venue: Zorba the Buddha, 7, Tropical Drive, MG Road, Ghitorni, New Delhi-110030
Ghosts of Shakespeare is an annual festival that is meant to confront the world of Shakespeare from the vantage of Indian performance idioms and aesthetics, as well as contemporary subjectivities and lived experience. It is meant to exist, both physically and metaphorically, in marginal spaces. This means that it intends to explore non-traditional venues, including open and public spaces, as well as reach out to genres other than traditional theatre, such as dance, performance art, street theatre and other forms of theatre activism, and genres which defy any easy categorization. It looks at Shakespeare not as an icon of elitism, but a living talisman of protest and humanistic articulation, and hence embraces artistic actions that articulate disturbing and perhaps unpopular truths about the world and times we inhabit.
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| ‘The Ghosts of Shakespeare’ Festival |
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2013; 7–8 pm
It is a walk in event. No Prior Registration Required.
Venue: Zorba the Buddha, 7, Tropical Drive, MG Road, Ghitorni, New Delhi-110030
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