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"...

Ek Mamooli Aadmi at Lucknow on 3rd March

Sangeet Natak Academy
and Bhartendu Natya Academy
presents
Rang-Sangam Natya Utsav
1st-8th March

Sant Gadgeji Maharaj Auditorium,
Utter Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy,
Gomati Nagar, Lucknow

Ek Mamooli Aadmi '( एक मामूली आदमी )'
on 3rd March ,2009 at 6.30 pm
Directed by Arvind Gaur (अरविन्द गौड़)

Written by Ashok Lal
Music by Dr.Sangeeta Gaur

Actors
मंच पर
उमेश: राहुल
दत्ता राधेश्याम : प्रवेश
धवन गोस्वामी: पंकज यादव
रमा: रिचा शर्मा
बग्गा: राज शर्मा
तिवारी: दिनेश धवन
निर्माण क्लर्क: सौरभ
पालकानूनी क्लर्क: प्रियान्क
क्लर्क: त्रिशूल गौड़ ,मनवीर सनसनवाल,
आशीष बिष्ट, अरुण राणा,सन्जोग, अशोक चोहान,
मलय गर्ग, मनीश उपाध्याय ,सुमित पवार ,
वसीम,सचिन चन्द्रा, कोशल सारस्वत, अन्चित
औरत 1: देविका शर्मा
औरत 2: त्रिमाला अधिकारी
औरत 3: शालिनी राय
औरत 4: शिल्पी मारवाह
औरत 5: नेहा शर्मा /नीलम
औरत 6: रिचा शर्मा
आयुक्त: हेमंत पांडे/ दिनेश धवन
ईश्वर चन्द अवस्थी : विरेन
बसोया खरे : बजरंग बली सिंह
लक्ष्मी: शिल्पी मारवाह
अजनबी 1: राज शर्मा
अजनबी 2: प्रियान्क द्विवेदी
चाय वाला: हिमांशु शर्मा
जन्मदिन गर्ल: सावेरी गौड़
बैरा: सुमित / हिमांशु
दादा/गून्डा: मनवीर सनसनवाल
मंत्री: दिनेश धवन/ आशीष बिष्ट
जनता: सन्जोग, अशोक चोहान,मलय गर्ग,मनीश उपाध्याय ,सुमित पवार ,
वसीम, देविका शर्मा , प्रियान्क द्विवेदी ,त्रिमाला अधिकारी , हिमांशु शर्मा ,
शालिनी राय, आशीष बिष्ट, अन्चित, राहुल ,अरुण राणा ,नीलम
स्वप्नेश :काकोली गौड़
चोकीदार : सौरभ पाल
नेपथ्य
सेट :पंकज यादव,हेमंत पांडे पांडेय, त्रिशूल गौड़ आशीष बिष्ट, अरुण राणा
विवरणिका: सौरभ पाल
डॉ. संगीता गौड़
नाटककार: अशोक लाल
निर्देशक : अरविन्द गौड़

Contact
asmitatheatre@gmail.com
9911013630 (Viren Basoya), 9868885129 (Shilpi Marwaha)
9899650509(Arvind Gaur)
An Asmita production