‘Prosperous Farm, (Un)happy Animals’
The Great Animal Revolt begins at Teku’s Kausi Theater with a pig’s rousing speech calling for revolution against a human oppressor.As Old...
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The great feast of death
R ight before by-elections for a seat in the Parliament, the corpse of a man called Bishweshwar or ‘Bishu’ is found below...
Replaying male machismo
Lee and Austin are brothers who don’t seem to have much in common. Austin is a cultured man with an Ivy League...
Dance-drama takes trafficking head-on
Human trafficking makes for dramatic stories of suffering, struggle and survival, which is why it is frequently the theme on stage and...
All the world is a stage in Kathmandu
“A girl doesn’t need a master’s degree, I have found a headmaster for you instead.”Thus starts Rape Machine, a play in which actress Diya Maskey...
Children on stage
At Kathmandu’s Russian Culture Center a hall full of children watch with bated breath as a Russian folklore unfolds on stage. As...
Once upon a time
After staging plays by foreign writers, Mandala Theatre has forayed into an original Nepali folktale, with a sharp contemporary socio-political message.Jalini is...
Drama in real life
https://youtu.be/2h_MNN1I9r4Sangita Uranw describes the first time she saw the inside of a theatre: jaw- dropping. Used to performing street dramas, where passersby jostled...
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