Janus

We had quite a fabulous week at Short+Sweet Dubai 2016. Our first play this year, New Year’s Eve, sailed through to the Gala Final as the top pick in both the judges and the audience vote.

So now on to the second play in our four plays planned this year for the festival. This one’s called ‘Janus’, and it’s a monologue that attempts to explore the nature of identity. It deals with stereotypes, reverse stereotypes, and how people aren’t what you think they are. And how sometimes they’re exactly that, or worse.

Part of Top 40 week 3, it's on at the The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue on Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th of February, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are available on The Junction website and at the venue. This year has seen some crazy action at the box office, so booking in advance is recommended.

See you there!

 

Third Half Theatre presents…

Janus

Writer: Rhea Dixit & Sanjeev Dixit

Director:  Rhea Dixit

Cast: Sanjeev Dixit

A man walks into a grocery store, and it changes his life.

New Year’s Eve

Well it’s that time of the year again. After the rather astounding time we had at the 2015 festival, Third Half Theatre is back for Short+Sweet 2016.

Our first play this year is a beautiful two hander exploring the nature of aging. Without being maudlin the play manages to bring out both the travails of growing old and the indomitable spirit of man that never ages.

We’ve got quite the team for this play. We welcome a true Dubai veteran of the stage for his first play with Third Half Theatre. He joins two of our regulars, one of whom marks his directorial debut. Looking forward to see the results of the team’s hard work on stage.

Part of Top 40 week 2, it's on at the The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue on Friday the 5^th and Saturday the 6th of February, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.

The festival runs from the 29th of January to the 11th of March and will feature over 80 plays. The majority of the plays will be performed at The Junction, a newly opened black box theatre at Al Serkal avenue and the Final will be held at The Madinat.  

Tickets are available on The Junction website and at the venue.

See you there!

Third Half Theatre presents…
New Year’s Eve
Writer: David MacGregor
Director:  Dharam Veer Sood
Cast: Disha Joseph, Eric Dury

We begin aging and moving towards death from the moment we are born. What then, is the point of it all?

Haaye Akhtari

As part of global celebrations marking the centenary year of the legendary Begum Akhtar, Third Half Theatre is happy to once again be associated with Malhaar in bringing you Haaye Akhtari, a soulful blend of Music, Dance, and the Theatre.

The show will feature Begum Akhtar’s most famous ghazals, thumris, and dadras, some of which are innovatively rendered in Malhaar’s signature choir style and accompanied by classical Kathak dance. Interwoven through the music and the dance is the theatre which will depict the life story of her journey as a young school student performing extempore to the fully realized Malika e Ghazal—or Queen of Ghazals—Begum Akhtar.

Haaye Akhtari will be staged at Madinat Theatre, Souk Madinat Jumeirah, Mina A'Salam on September 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. The spoken language of the show is Hindi/Urdu and features Indian traditional music in various languages set to classical as well as contemporary rhythms.

Tickets: Platinum AED 350, Gold AED 200, Silver AED 100, and Bronze AED 75.

Tickets available at Madinat Theatre Box Office, Madinat website, and Platinum List online. For further information, please call 050-6882652.

See you there!

Tréteau at the Madinat as part of Shorter+Sweeter

Our little box of magic, 'Tréteau', is a gift that keeps on giving. Having performed to rave reviews at Short+Sweet, Emirates Litfest, and the Sikka Art Fair, it will now be showcased at the Madinat Theatre, Jumeirah as part of Shorter+Sweeter 2015.

Shorter+Sweeter promises to be an annual event that features the very best of Short+Sweet plays performed in Dubai and indeed worldwide. In its first iteration it will feature a selection from the festival's three year history in Dubai.

Some superlative plays; perhaps the very finest scripts from all of Short+Sweet the world over will be on view this weekend and we're quite flattered to stage 'Tréteau'  alongside them as a guest performance.

The full list of plays can be seen here, and we also have the eight reasons to see Shorter+Sweeter here. There has also been coverage for the show in The National and the Khaleej Times.

The shows are on Thursday the 7th of May at 8 p.m. and on Friday the 8th of May at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Madinat. Tickets are available at the box office and at the theatre's website as well as on Virgin Tickets.

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.