Bertolt Brecht's Birthday on 10th february

On Bertolt Brecht's birthday
Asmita theatre actors present
"'Brecht's Poems "
at rehersal venue, ITO at 6.30pm.

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Erwin Piscator and Vsevolod Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political ideas and the creation of a critical aesthetics of dialectical materialism. Brecht's modernist concern with drama-as-a-medium led to his refinement of the 'epic form' of the drama. This dramatic form is related to similar modernist innovations in other arts, including the strategy of divergent chapters in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Sergei Eisenstein's evolution of a constructivist 'montage' in the cinema, and Picasso's introduction of cubist 'collage' in the visual arts.In contrast to many other avant-garde approaches, however, Brecht had no desire to destroy art as an institution; rather, he hoped to 're-function' the theatre to a new social use. In this regard he was a vital participant in the aesthetic debates of his era—particularly over the 'high art/popular culture' dichotomy—vying with the likes of Adorno, Lukács, Bloch, and developing a close friendship with Benjamin. Brechtian theatre articulated popular themes and forms with avant-garde formal experimentation to create a modernist realism that stood in sharp contrast both to its psychological and socialist varieties. "Brecht's work is the most important and original in European drama since Ibsen and Strindberg", Raymond Williams argues, while Peter Bürger dubs him "the most important materialist writer of our time"...

Rajesh Kumar's Ambedkar Aur Gandhi in Bhopal on 6th Dec dir by AG

Rajesh Kumar's

Ambedkar AUR Gandhi

directed by Arvind Gaur

on 6th Dec.at Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal

"Aadhi Vidrohi Natya Samaroh "

Presented by Sawaraj Sansthan Sanchalanaliya

Actors-Dr. B.R Ambedkar - Bajrang Bali Singh,M.Gandhi - Viren Basoya,Rama Bai- Shilpi Marwaha,Gayakwad -Raj Sharma,Devrao Nayak -Saurabh Pal,Kedarkar- Malay Garg/Tosam/Parvesh,Devdas Gandhi -Pankaj Raj Yadav,Sarder Patel -Shiv Chauhan,Madan Mohan Malviya -Dinesh Dhawan,Mahadev Bhai -Pankaj Dattta/Teishul Gaur/Parvesh Dhawan,Sarojini Naidu -Vrinda Vedi/Disha Arora,Annie Baesant -Rachitta Juneja/Pooja Pradhan,Mahar : Saveree Gaur, Kakoli Gaur,Brahmin: Disha arora,Temple Priest: Parvesh Dhawan,Chorus - Asish,MdWaseem,Parvesh Dhawan,Priyank Dwivedi,Akash Dabas,Alok,Shashank,Arvind Kesari,Tosham Acharya,Aman,Shagun,Puneet,Himanshu Maggu ,Chatanya Vasist ,Irfan Khan ,Deepak Batra ,Rahul Khanna,Shiv Chauhan,Shalini Rai,Puneet Grover,Narendra,Devesh,Beena Rai ,Palak ,Priyank Mahajan,Suraj Singh,Sheena Chauhan ,Pankaj,Tanmay Prasad, pooja, Vallari srivastva,Pankaj dutta, Aneesh ....

Credits-

Music by Dr.Sangeeta Gaur

With musicians - Sandy , Anil Mishra & Mohit Sharma

Group incharge Viren Basoya

Production Raj Sharma and Pankaj Raj Yadav