It's All Been Done Before

Our final play for this year's Short+Sweet is an original Third Half Theatre presentation.

Do come and catch us at the Top 30 - Week 3 at Kilachand theatre, Ductac, Mall of the Emirates on 19, 20, 21 Feb 2014 at 8 p.m. Yep, the show runs from Wednesday to Friday night at 8 p.m this week. Tickets are available as usual on TimeOut and at the venue.

We're all set for the dress rehearsals tomorrow, can't wait! The thing with writing a comedy is that it isn't one till you perform it for an audience, and they then tell you with their reactions whether it actually is one. Still, I would like to think of the play as not just a comedy or a farce, but also an insider's view of the funny ole' world of the stage.

Looking forward to the reactions on this one...

Third Half Theatre presents
It's All Been Done Before
Written & Directed by Sanjeev Dixit
Cast in order of appearance: Sanjeev Dixit, Disha Joseph, Sumedh Kulkarni, Dharam Veer Sood, Butool Zaidi, Shantanu Mhaisalkar, Minali Patel, Cmith Sarkar
Crew: Anitha Kulkarni

Coming up with an original play for Short+Sweet isn't easy, especially when the darn characters keep getting in the way!

The Man Who Was Music

Our second play for this year's Short+Sweet is the story of a composer who, at his final concert, reminisces on how he came to be a musician.

Part of Wildcards week 2, it's on at the Kilachand theatre, Ductac, Mall of the Emirates on Saturday the 15th of February, 2014. There are two shows at 3 p.m & 8 p.m.

Tickets are available online at TimeOut and also at the venue.

The following excerpt from T.S. Eliot's The Dry Salvages, to me, best evokes the play's intent and scope:

"For most of us, there is only the unattended

Moment, the moment in and out of time,

The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight,

The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning

Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply

That it is not heard at all, but...

You are the music

While the music lasts."

Third Half Theatre presents...
The Man Who Was Music
Written by Aishwarya Jha-Mathur
Directed by Rhea Dixit
Cast: Sanjeev Dixit, Sumedh Kulkarni, Mitali Patel, Cmith Sarkar
Crew: Anitha Kulkarni

Studio One Live

Was on the Studio One Live show last week with Liz Hadaway, Associate Director of Short+Sweet Dubai.

Here's the full episode, we're on the first segment from 1:40 to 8:55 ..

Badke Bhaiya

Our first play for Short+Sweet is an adaptation of a Premchand short story.

Part of Wildcards week 1, it's on at the Kilachand theatre, Ductac, Mall of the Emirates on Saturday the 8th of February, 2014. There are two shows, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

The festival will run from the 5th to the 22nd of February and will feature over 60 plays. Tickets are available at time out tickets, and at the venue.

See you there!

Third Half Theatre presents..

Badke Bhaiya

Based on the short story 'Bade Bhaisahab' by Munshi Premchand

Adapted for the stage by Nihal Parashar

Directed by Sumedh Kulkarni

Cast: Yashwanth Jaggumantri, Paurav Shah

The long and the short of it..

It seems like only yesterday that we were in Delhi with 'I Am'. And here we are now, a new year, a new festival, and a new play.

Delhi was great fun. Bunking down with gracious friends who let us into their homes and hearts, tasting (and surviving) some of Delhi 's best street food, and getting to see some truly wonderful plays. It was a privilege to perform in Delhi. And 'I Am' is a play inspired by events that took place there, so it was an homecoming of sorts.

Back in Dubai, things are beginning to heat up in preparation for Short+Sweet 2014. This years line-up features over 60 plays from all over the UAE. Third Half Theatre will have three entries this year. One will be an original play, and two are plays that we saw, and loved, in Delhi.

It's shaping up to be quite a festival this year. Especially looking forward to original plays written by dear friends and colleagues from the dubai theatre fraternity; all the best folks!

'I Am' goes International!

Third Half Theatre is proud to confirm that its original short play 'I Am' will feature in Delhi's Short+Sweet Festival for 2013.

The journey with 'I Am' has been a very special one for the cast and crew. And to perform in Delhi; the place we hope the play resonates the most, is indeed a rare privilege.


The logistics of traveling with a play that has a cast of eight is, to put it mildly, a daunting task. However, credit must be given to the dedication of the team who have managed to pull it off.

So here we are, and the mood is decidedly upbeat. Bags packed, tickets booked, and ready to fly!

For those of you in Delhi, or for that matter anywhere in India with a chance to pop into Delhi for the weekend, do give us a look in at the Kamani Auditorium on the 28th and 29th of November, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available online as well at bookmyshow.

Hope to see you there!

A year, already?

Exactly a year ago we opened at the Centrepoint Theatre in DUCTAC with Michael Frayn's classic 'Noises Off'. And Third Half Theatre was born.

A year, already? Looking back it sure doesn't seem like all that much time has passed. And yet, so much has happened! An evening of three short plays later in 2012, the Short+Sweet Festival, the Emirates Litfest, and finally the Sikka Art fair in March 2013.

I suppose we can't be blamed for taking a bit of a breather right now. But rest assured, we will be back shortly with new developments.

So here's to each and everyone that has been involved in the journey of our little theatre group. The casts, the crews, the audiences, the well-wishers, supporters, sponsors, families, venue hosts, media, and friends. The journey is impossible without good company.

I will end with a quote from Oscar Wilde that inevitably finds its way in most of our brochures:

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."