theatre

Hate the game, not the player

Play द सिस्टम is a funny, frustrating, and tense look at women and workplace politics

Vishad Raj Onta

Marriage drama

Katha Ghera’s latest adapted play reflects modern marriages and family dynamics in Nepal

No exit from Lake Constance

How best to describe Peter Handke’s The Ride Across Lake Constance, produced by One World Theatre and performed at Mandala in Kathmandu?The audience...

‘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...

Shristi Karki

The price of a kiss

Sara and Callie are taking a walk late at night through the West Village. They have just been out at a bar...

Ashish Dhakal

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...

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...

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...

All the men and women merely players

Nepal’s theatre business is not doing well financially, but you would not be able to tell here in the alleys of Teku,...

Kathmandu is stage for Chekov’s Three Sisters

 "Life won’t change. It’ll still be happy and hard and mysterious”, says a character early on in the play in response to...