Theatre Space of Adishakti Module
Puducherry
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The colonial town of Puducherry has been home to some of India's greatest poets, spiritual seekers, and visionaries, especially during British rule. It possesses the rare virtue of being both a political refuge and a spiritual haven for several luminaries who, on their part, were both freedom…
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It was on a sweltering, humid June afternoon in 2023 that we disembarked from our bus outside the Seaside Guest House in Pondicherry. Our journey from the Chennai airport to the majestic, sand-scrubbed forms of the Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram felt akin to time travel. Driving along the East…
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Pondicherry, a coastal enclave, is part of the Cauvery delta with typical deltaic ecosystems such as mangroves, inter-tidal zones, estuaries, and lagoons. Small rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, and feed estuaries such as Ariankuppam that lie at the interface between salt and fresh water. The…
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The Fire-Station Banyan Tree was brimming with excitement. He was eager to reach the enchanting Coconut Island of Thengaithittu before Auroville Banyan Tree had a chance. The low tide on the Ariyankuppam River filled him with delight, as he no longer needed to make the lengthy detour over the…
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Eminent theatre personality Veenapani Chawla (1947‒2014) established Adishakti in Mumbai in 1981, in a quest to evolve a unique theatre language. Later, she shifted Adishakti to Puducherry, where it finally settled into its own campus in 1981. The theatre that Chawla wanted to mould and explore was…
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‘In Europe, theatre is dying like the epidemic,’ wrote Eugenio Barba, the director of the Odin Teatret (Odin Theatre, Denmark) to the Indian theatre practitioner Veenapani Chawla (Fig.1) in 1996. Chawla shared Barba’s lament. In India, too, both contemporary and traditional forms of theatre were…
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Veenapani Chawla (1947‒2014) was an acclaimed theatre personality who opened new frontiers in modern Indian theatre. After finishing an MA in History, she taught history and English in schools in Mumbai. When she took drama classes for her young students, she was so fascinated by the craft that she…
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