The festival aims to confront the world of Shakespeare from the vantage of Indian performance idioms and aesthetics, as well as contemporary subjectivities and lived experience. "It looks at Shakespeare not as an icon of elitism, but a living talisman of protest and humanistic articulation. The festival embraces artistic actions that articulate disturbing truths about the world and times we inhabit," says Arka Mukhopadhyay, curator of the Arshinagar project (a collective of artists from different disciplines) which, in partnership with Akshara Theatre formed the genesis of the festival in 2010.
The 2013 festival is being held in two cities beginning with Delhi from April 23 (Shakespeare's birth anniversary) to April 25, and in Kolkata from April 27-30.
The Delhi leg of the festival opened on Tuesday with 'Macbeth of the Mountains' at Ghitorni. It was a workshop performance led by internationally acclaimed theatre practitioner John Britton. April 24 had a talk titled 'The Shakespeare of In-betweens' by Britton followed by a performance 'Kranti Prem' at Sheikh Sarai. Also on show was 'Multiplied Monologues: Aloud Asides' by Samudra Kajal Saikia and Kankhowa.
The third and last day April 25 will see the staging of 'A Million Hamlets' at Vasant Valley School following which the festival moves to Kolkata.
According to Mukhopadhyay, "all these acts aim to explore Shakespeare as a living and often disquieting presence and not as a dead icon of elitism."
A non-ticketed event, the festival last year was held in Kolkata. The 2012 edition was a 'zero-budget' festival because the "performers and venue-sponsors did not charge anything, nor was any money received as sponsorship," says Mukhopadhyay.
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