Arangadal - 9th Festival of Theatre and Dance

Organised by Manaveli Performing Arts Group
Date: March 16 & 17, 2002; 13.00 HRS AND 17.OO Hrs.
Venue: Markham Theatre, Ontario, Canada.

Info on the Festival

"The House that Mayan built" (Puthiyathor Veedu}


Makakavi





Selvan, a veteran actor with experience in directing Tamil plays, directed the play under the directorial guidance of K S Balachandran, one of Tamil world’s eminent directors with a number of plays and a film to his directorial credit.
Considered as one of the pioneers of modern Tamil poetry and theatre, the late Mahakavi was known for his work on introducing the rhymes of ordinary speech into his poetry. He authored five epics, three stage plays in verse and ten radio plays.


"The Chairs" (Natkalikal)

Eugene Ionesco


The Chairs of the Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco, also known as the Father of the Absurd, portrays the story of an elderly couple’s adventures on passing on their life experience to the world symbolised by a proliferation of chairs that were however not filled by the expected guests.

P Vigneswaran, a former director of the Tamil service of the Sri Lankan state Television Corporation (Rupavahini), has ‘tamilised’ and directed the play, written in 1952 and that for some symbolises Ionesco’s own frustrations in gaining recognition for his lifetime work as a dramatist. Mr. Vigneswaran has scripted and directed many plays, including Imaginations Are Not Disturbed, the first tele-drama in the Tamil-speaking world.

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