About The Event
Avant Garde is a theatre play series by Chennai Art Theatre where theatre and art is incorporated and performed.
Here`s the first edition part 1 details
Play 1: Rolla
Art piece : Rolla 1878
Synopsis : A play inspired by the poem of the same name by Alfred Musset and the painting by Henri Gervex, a disgraced Rolla , squanders his money and decides to die , he visits a prostitute who has taken to the profession due to poverty… they become perfect companions in his quest for self- destruction.
Play 2: குதிரை சவாரி (Horse Tales)
Art piece: Equestrian statue of Thomas Munro
Synopsis: When the 200-year old statue of Sir Thomas Munro sitting on a horse in Mount Road, overhears that the government is planning to remove the statue and remake it into something else, the horse begins to worry; he trots back in time to 19th century Madras when the statue was being erected to convince the officials to not install it here. Inspired by a series of paintings of Madras made in the 1800s, the first ever map of Madras, and the statue itself.
