|
| |
|
| |
| Please contact Ramneek Kang: ramneekkang16@gmail.com 571 528 7226 for further information. |
| |
Rajat Kapoor's Hamlet The Clown Prince
In New York City for Two Days Only! |
| |
New York, May 28, 2014 - The Indo-American Arts Council presents Rajat Kapoor's hilarious and paradoxical retelling of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet. Join us on July 1st and 2nd at 7:30 pm for Hamlet The Clown Prince at The Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, NYC.
Directed by Rajat Kapoor who is known among cinema enthusiasts for being a pioneer of the new wave indie Indian cinema; he explores the themes of treachery, incest and moral corruption through clowns! Addressing what has been brushed under a silent shroud, the characters serve as speakers' of undistorted honesty and bluntness.
Performed by a superb cast featuring, Atul Kumar, Neil Bhoopalam, Rachel D'Souza, Kalki Koechlin, Puja Sarup, Sujay Saple and Namit Das; this play is not only a parody of the original Hamlet but is also a digression into the lives of the (clown) characters making it a 'must watch'.
In Kapoor's version, the clowns deliberately misinterpret the original script, take things out of context and derive their own existential conclusions making the play funny as well as filled with contemporary influences, which manage to present the classical tragedy with a modern feel.
“I am delighted to present this fun, insightful piece of theatre to our New York audiences. Exploring life's paradoxes through comedy has long been a theatrical conceit …never more succinctly presented as in this creative adaptation of Shakespeare's conflicted prince", says Indo-American Arts Council Executive Director Aroon Shivdasani.
Please rsvp: events.iaac@gmail.com.
Tickets: General admission: $56 IAAC Members: $51
For tickets, please visit:
For information on Rajat Kapoor and his work, please visit:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=rajat+kapoor&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
For further information about interviews and images, please contact Ramneek Kang: ramneekkang16@gmail.com 571 528 7226 or Rohan Gupta rohan.iaac@gmail.com 917 855 4553. And please visit: /Hamlet-the-Clown-Prince/index.htm
|
|
| |
About the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC):
The Indo-American Arts Council is a registered 501(c) 3 not-for-profit, secular service and resource arts organization charged with the mission of promoting and building the awareness, creation, production, exhibition, publication and performance of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America. The IAAC supports all artistic disciplines in the classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. We work cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared information, resources and funding. Our focus is to work with artists and arts organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists and arts organizations from India to exhibit, perform and produce their works here.
For more information on the Indo-American Arts Council and affiliated events, please visit 212 594 3685. |
|
|
| |
| |
