Auditions for our November Play

Third Half Theatre announces OPEN AUDITIONS for its play in English to be staged at The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue on 15, 16, 17 November 2018.

Audition Details

Working Title	:	Strings
Writer/Director	:	Sanjeev Dixit
Audition Dates	:	Friday 31st August 2018, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday 1st September 2018, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sunday 2nd September 2018, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Venue	:	Malhaar Centre for Performing Arts 1302, Tiffany Towers, Cluster W, JLT, Dubai
Casting for	:	17 Characters, 5M, 3F, 9 can be played by either M or F. Various ages (+15)

Auditions are open to all nationalities. Please come prepared with a short monologue.

Kindly register here for the auditions. 

Prior registration is not mandatory but will help us organize the auditions better. If you have any further questions, message us on facebook or drop us a line at ThirdHalfTheatre[at]gmail[dot]com.

About the Play:

A kingdom under siege. As the King contemplates surrender, his daughter comes to accept that her betrothal will form part of the terms. When events take a turn for the worse, her brother is left to deal with the consequences. Love and duty are sacrificed to the politics of betrayal, and vengeance.

Inspired by the traditions of Natyashastra (Indian classical theatre treatise), the Greek Classics, and Japanese Noh, the play combines varied elements to convey a timeless story using techniques that have been around for millennia, to a modern audience.

Those familiar with the Director’s earlier works, especially Tréteau and The Tragic Queen, will have an idea of the physicality, movement, and stagecraft involved in this attempt.

Rehearsals are scheduled to start from mid-September for 2-3 sessions a week.

See you at the auditions, all the best!

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Our first full length play in a long, long while traces the life and times of one of the most interesting personalities from 60s and 70s' London.

Jeffrey Bernard wrote the column 'Low Life' for The Spectator magazine, before he was fired that is. He was once approached to write his autobiography, and true to form, he put out an ad asking if anyone could remember what he was doing between 1960 and 1974. Fortunately for him, his friend and cohort Keith Waterhouse remembered enough to pen this play on the great Bohemian who frequented Soho back in the day.

Peppered with anecdotes and characters from his life, the play is at once hilarious and poignant, harking back to a time that was stubbornly not-PC. Often when he couldn’t submit his article before the deadline and no substitute was readily available, his long-suffering magazine would print the one-line apology, ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell’.

 As the poet Elizabeth Smart put it:

"Wilde would have smiled
and been beguiled
and bright enough to know
that you had a better
Muse in tow
than he."

Do join us for this hilarious and heady Journey with JB on 9, 10, 11 August 7:30 p.m. at The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue. Tickets available on Platinumlist and at the venue.

 

Third Half Theatre presents…  

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Writer: Keith Waterhouse
Director: Sanjeev Dixit
Cast:Toby Masson, Sarah Potter, Ramya Bala, Greg Lunn, Assyl Yacine

"From that point on, I was never to look... forward."

Going Viral

Well, it's that time of the year again. Now in its sixth year in Dubai, the Short+Sweet Theatre festival is the largest showcase of ten minute plays in the world.

Director Minali Patel has picked a play that questions our digital footprint today and also what it may be like in the future. "By basing it in 2040, I wanted to explore the above as well as how relevant social media would be in the coming years. Would social media fade off, stay with people who are currently using it, or transcend to something else?", says Minali.

Part of Top 40 week 4, it's on at the The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue on Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th of February, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

The festival runs from the 26th of January to the 3rd of March and will feature over 80 plays. Tickets are available on Platinumlist and at the venue.

See you there!

 

Third Half Theatre presents…  

Going Viral
Writer: Brandon Crose
Director: Minali Patel
Cast: Arvana Chana, Kailash Nair, Sabiha Majgaonkar

When a couple in a hyper-socialized 2040 sits down with their teenage daughter, things start to get interesting in what turns out to be an awkward, new age, 'parental intervention'.

War/Kiss

Third Half Theatre will be performing at the Alex Broun Play Festival happening this weekend at The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue.

One of Alex's newer plays, War/Kiss is a sensitive deliberation on the vagaries of love in times of war. Ably enacted by a young cast, the play has been put together in record time, even by our highly time-strapped standards.

November was to be the beginning of a long break after an extremely hectic season. However, we are happy to be back in it to support Alex with his first ever festival. Here's wishing him the very best!

Tickets are available online at TixBox. Alternately you can call 04-3388525 to reserve a ticket or get it at the door on the night. Tickets are Aed 80/- per session and Aed 200/- for a Season Pass to the whole Festival which features over 40 short plays.

Our play stages on Fri 18th and Sat 19th November, 2016 at 9:00 p.m. See ya!

Third Half Theatre presents…
War/Kiss
Writer: Alex Broun
Director: Sanjeev Dixit
Cast: Lynn Roger Kakhia, Omar Mohamed Fayek

"But kisses do that. Make you dumb. Make you forget everything."