Coconut Theatre connects the world theatre through 'Chai-Wai & Rangmanch'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 25 2020:
During the lockdown, Chai-Wai & Rangmanch has oragnised series of live sessions by theatre practitioners.
Coconut Theatre embarked on this project during the current lockdown.
It has developed an Intellectual Property titled - "Chai-Wai & Rangmanch - 2020", which comprises of one daily Online Session with a reputed Theatre Expert from India and various countries all over the world including the USA, UK, Australia, South Africa Africa and UK .
The sessions were live on the official Coconut Theatre Facebook Page at 6 PM IST.
Veteran actors, award winning playwrights & directors, make-up specialists, music composers, designers, choreographers and technicians shared their memorable experiences and also their life changing inspirational moments.
This collectors' item is an invaluable tool for any aspiring theatre student, amateur rheatre artist[e]s, writers, directors, music composers, choreographers, make-up artists, designers, technicians, theatre groups and everyone connected with the theatre fraternity.
Managing Director of Coconut Media Box LLP Rashmin Majithia shared that Chai-Wai & Rangmanch is the biggest activity for theatre practitioners, speakers from various cultures, age groups, willingly consented.
A few senior theatre experts who are 80+ years old too, enthusiastically joined the fray.
A few respected names such as, Padma Shri &Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winner Rita Ganguly, M S Sathyu, Bansi Kaul, Manoj Joshi, Neelam Mansingh, Satish Alekar, Dadi Pudumjee and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winner Dolly Ahluwalia, Prof Ashok Bhagat, Prasanna, Suresh Sharma (Director � National School of Drama), Amod Bhatt, Anjana Puri, Sanjay Upadhyay, Rohini Hattangady, Nadira Babbar, Himani Shivpuri have done their sessions.
Stalwart participants and many other senior theatre experts have done their sessions.
Global thetre experts have been added to Coconut Theatre's repertoire, seeing artistic director Bruce Guthrie from UK, Jonathan Hollander from NYC, USA, Mark Wakeling from UK, AmrKabeel from Egypt, Ingri Fiksdal from Norway, David Woods from Australia, Neil Patel from USA, Megan Furniss from South Africa, Glenn Hayden from Australia, Jessica Litwak from Californina, USA, Ana C�ndida Carneiro from the USA, 3 times Tony Award Winner Scott Pask from USA, Motshabi Tyelele from South Africa and world renowned Jeff Baron from the USA have done their sessions.
Upcoming sessions are with Padma Shri & Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee Waman Kendre (July 25), Padma Shri Awardee Balwant Thakur (July 18), Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee Neena Tiwana(July 13), actors Ananth Mahadevan (July 24), Sharman Joshi(July 12), RajpalYadav(July 14), and Adil Hussain (July 26), singer and actress Pallavi M D (July 20), Ranjit Kapoor (July 15), Sumeet Raghavan (July 17), theatre personality T S Nagabharana (July 22), C Basavalingaiah (July 16), Prakash Belawadi (July 23) and Gaurav Sharma (July11), actresses Apara Mehta (July19), Bharati Achrekar (July 12) and Jigna Joshi (July 21) and on-going.
"The objective is to connect entire theatre fraternity locally and globally on one platform to emphasize avenue of learning also to build a career.
Our vision is to achieve 108+ sessions by August 3, 2020 .
This archive will be available shortly on Coconut Theatre YouTube Channel with no cost." Shared by Rashmin Majithia - Managing Director (Coconut Media Box LLP) .
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