About The Event
About The Presentation:
RK Narayan’s philosophy of Simple Living and High Thinking merits a visit, especially by today’s gadget-breathing generation.
Theatrecian in association with Wisdom Curators and Go To Scale, embarked on a 12-week workshop series with young learners, rediscovering the adventures of Swami and Friends.
This original play attempts to weave a script that examines ‘progress’ in today’s terms. The music and lyrics are also original works that come together to celebrate the classic.
The play, set in the 1980s, opens with an unknown danger looming towards Malgudi. A simple yet vibrant town where boys and girls come together to play gully cricket after school. And, the grown-ups gather to chat around the town’s long-time establishment, a tea stall.
As we learn more about the impending change, as it grows to threaten beliefs and relationships amongst the children and the grown-ups, we question which values each holds dearest.
It is a quintessential struggle of progress against tradition and heritage. Who will step up to influence the decision? What will the people of Malgudi decide? We invite you to visit our town. And ask yourself, as all in Malgudi ask themselves: What Does Progress Mean To You?
(Theatrecian, in association with Wisdom Curators and Go To Scale, brings to you this Children’s Musical Theatrical Adventure. Theatrecian has brought to Delhi NCR in 2024, full house shows of ‘The Woman On Trial’, an Ayn Rand adaptation, and, ‘Twelve Angry Women’ an adaptation of Reginald Rose’s ‘Twelve Angry Men’, at LTG – Mandi House, and, Epicentre, Gurgaon.)
- Cast:
- Arun Nair
- Nakul Jain
- Radha Bhat
- Rucchica Gupta
- Shivani Gulati
- Aaratrika Data
- Akanksha Agarwal
- Aradhita Mukerji
- Idhant Gupta
- Ivaan Gupta
- Kashvi Rao
- Kuhana Gupta
- Nishal Sachdev
- Niyara Anya Noronha
- Rishabh Sarkad
- Yuvaan Yadav
- Aryash Mayank
- Neil Lyyam Noronha
- Kabir Kapoor
- Sahana Balaji
- Sanvi Choudhary
- Mime Choreography by: Suvendu Mukhopadhyay
- Music by: Joy Mishra
- Sound & Light by: Rajneesh Bhanot
- Presented by: Pragati Negi Noronha, Sugandhi Aggarwal, Tulika Shankar, Tathagata Chowdhury
- Script and Direction by: Tathagata Chowdhury
- About the Director: Tathagata Chowdhury, the founder of Theatrecian, is an award-winning actor, writer, director and producer having led more than 2000 shows of 200 plays across India. Tathagata is a Royal Shakespeare Company certified theatre director and has won the Kalakranti Best Playwright award for his original work ‘The Mumbai Zoo’. He is also an experienced Theatre and Films Educator, having helmed annual school productions at premier schools in India, the most recent was ‘Dashanan’ at Pathways Gurugram.
- About Theatrecian: Theatrecian has established itself as a production house that has presented over 200 plays with 2000 shows, conducted across major cities in India and abroad. These include the works of Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Agatha Christie, Samuel Beckett and more. BBC4 in its documentary on India, in 2007, declared the production house as the most prolific youth theatre company in the country.
