Tréteau

And after a rather eventful festival we present our last play for Short+Sweet Dubai, 'Tréteau'.

'Tréteau' is a play that is difficult to talk about without getting into long winded explanations. It's therefore best to simply present it and let you decide what it is. Do hope you enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed putting it together.

It happens on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st of February 7:30 p.m. as part of Top 30 Week-3 at Kilachand Theatre, Ductac, MOE.

Tickets at the box office and online at the Ductac Store.

Third Half Theatre presents..
Tréteau
Written & Directed by Sanjeev Dixit
Cast: Shereen Saif, Minali Patel, Ushma Shah Jasuja, Cmith Sarkar, Dharam Veer Sood, Siddarth Sivaprakash, Sunil Jasuja

I don’t know how to describe this play; some alternate titles were: ‘It’s All Been Done Before Too’ and ‘Think Inside The Box’. I suppose in many ways it’s a distillation of my love—our love—for the theatre.

Mandragora

Also happening this weekend as part of Wild Cards week-2 of Short+Sweet is 'Mandragora', a dream like play about a man recovering from an accident and struggling with his memories.

It's being staged only the one time at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday the 14th at Ductac, MOE so make sure you catch it.

Tickets on the online store and at the box office.

Third Half Theatre presents..
Mandragora
Written by David Sharpe
Directed by Rhea Dixit
Cast: Sanjeev Dixit, Minali Patel

A man recovers to find he has some of the memories of the person who died from the same accident.

Sarah

Next up at Short+Sweet Dubai is 'Sarah', a poignant story of perceptions and expectations. Efferevescent Sarah and strong, silent Nick meet on a blind date. How will they get along?

Part of Top 30 Week-2, it plays on both Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th at Kilachand theatre, Ductac, Mall of the Emirates at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets as usual available at the box office, and on Ductac's online store.

Third Half Theatre presents..
Sarah
Written by Tom Coash
Directed by Sunil Jasuja
Cast: Kalyan Chakravarthy, Disha Joseph

Nick, a New York City firefighter, is expecting an All-American girl for a blind date but finds himself in for a surprise.

Surgery

Our first play for Dubai's Short+Sweet festival this year is an adaptation of a Chekhov short story.

In Surgery, Chekhov takes a simple pastoral setting and places in it two very unlikely protagonists: A priest and a dentist. The play is also in part gleaned from Neil Simon's collection of Chekhov's short stories for the stage in The Good Doctor.

Part of Wildcards week 1, it's on at the Kilachand theatre, Ductac, Mall of the Emirates on Saturday the 7th of February, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

The festival will run from the 6th to the 28th of February and will feature almost 70 plays. Tickets are available on Ductac's online store and at the venue.

See you there!

Third Half Theatre presents..
Surgery
Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov
Hindi adaptation by Sunil Jasuja
Dialect consultants: Ruqya Khan, Kalyan Chakravarthy
Directed by Disha Joseph
Cast: Kalyan Chakravarthy, Sunil Jasuja

A priest visits the dentist of a small town in India with a toothache but finds himself trapped in the hands of an amateur subordinate… from hell.

Draupadi - The Voice of Dignity

Third Half Theatre is proud to be associated with Malhaar in their musical 'Draupadi - The Voice of Dignity'. It promises to be a spectacle of Music, Dance, and Theatre with classical as well as contemporary influences.

On the one hand you have the music, steeped in the best Indian traditions, yet with windows thrown open to influences from all over the world, old and contemporary. Then you have the dances, again born from the rigour of classical training, but tempered with modern and even post-modern touches. And then there is the theatre, trying to give it all a breathable, believable context. 

A lot of folk have enquired about the language of the show--the spoken dialogue is in English, however a large portion of the show is music and dance, of which the music is mostly Indian traditional music in various languages set to classical as well as contemporary rhythms.

'Draupadi...' will be staged at Madinat Theatre, Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Mina A'Salam on May 23 and 24 at &:30 p.m. 

Tickets priced as follows: Platinum AED 150, Gold AED 100 and Silver AED 75

Tickets available at Time Out Tickets, Madinat Theatre Box Office and Select Liali outlets (Meadows, Ibn Battuta, Spinneys - Trade Center Road and Mercato Mall).  For further information, please call 055-1013652.

Read coverage for the show in the Friday magazine and in The National. See you over the weekend!

At Sikka 2014

We will be performing 'Badke Bhaiya' as part of three short plays presented by Short+Sweet at this year's Sikka Art Fair.

The Sikka Art Fair is held annually at the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood and features local and international artists. Please refer this link for ways to get to Sikka.

Our play will be staged tonight at 7.00 p.m. on the main stage. There are signs all over that should lead you to the stage once you've reached the Fair.

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: Paurav Shah, Sunil Jasuja

At the Litfest Fringe 2014

Third Half Theatre will feature again this year at The Penguin Fringe of the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.

We have a 45 minute slot and plan to pack it with non-stop entertainment, quite along the lines of our performance at Sikka which was one of our favorite shows last year.

We begin with some live music to, well, liven things up a bit and follow it up with two short plays back to back: Badke Bhaiya, and what still remains a firm favourite with both group-members and audiences alike, Garçon.

The show begins at 5 p.m. sharp on Friday the 7th of March at Al Baraha 1, Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City. Entry is FREE so look forward to seeing you there.

And don't forget to check out the other theatre action this year at The Penguin Fringe featuring some of the best ten minute plays from Short+Sweet, a stage adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis, Theatresports and more.

Third Half Theatre presents..

The musical talents of 

Rohit Gupta and Cmith Sarkar

Followed by..

Badke Bhaiya

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

Adapted for the stage by Nihal Parashar

Directed by Sumedh Kulkarni

Cast: Paurav Shah, Sunil Jasuja

And signing off with..

Garçon 

Written and directed by Sanjeev Dixit

Cast: Sanjeev Dixit, Tuhinanshu Chaturvedi, Disha Joseph, Jatin Deepchandani, Aditya Sule