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Nirmala Govindarajan From being a 30-year-old performing company called ART, whose only worry was the next play, where to perform it and get the audience there, its metamorphosis Jagriti has now become the space to get the audience to. “Suddenly we are catapulted into running a full time business.

Written by Gautam Raja, presented by Jagriti Theatre, City Bang Bang will feature short sketches that offer a fun and interesting perspective on city life – Sravasti Datta The Bangalore of yore may have been lost to a rapidly-developing landscape, but memories of old Bangalore endures.

The Fabulous Adventures of Aditi and Friends, a play about friendship and courage, marks the end of Jagriti’s Summer Carnival for Children – Gita Dutt Summer will soon be a speck in the eye, with the oncoming monsoon, thunder, lightning, umbrellas… and school re-openings.

Deccan Chronicle writes on Close Encounters, a series of talks Jagriti Theatre that help understand the Change Makers of India.

Entertaining, interactive and laced with fun and laughter, Jujubee will leave both adults and children asking for more – Gita Dutt Make no mistake, Jujubee is a fun fest — for children and adults alike. Watching a children’s play in an auditorium with kids in abundance is an unmatched experience.

S. D. Jagriti Theatre will host The Kids Carnival 2013, featuring workshops, performances and other events Jagriti Theatre has announced its next endeavour: The Kids Carnival, 2013. On May 20, Jagriti will come alive with performances, workshops, music and stalls.

Pavitra Jayaraman Written in the 1950s, and based on the “Monkey trial” that took place in 1925, Inherit the Wind, a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, continues to be relevant today. The play, first staged in 1955, is the story of a schoolteacher, John Scopes, who is indicted for teaching Darwin’s.

Jagriti and SAP have had many collaborations in the past. Here, Harvard Business Review‘s blog talks about V.R. Ferose, managing director, SAP Labs India, and his initiative to reduce SAP’s attrition rate. One of his ideas was to send employees interested in “brushing up on their communication skills” to a “theater located near the campus.

Peter Bloedel gives Shakespeare the ‘full Seuss treatment’ in his The Seussification of a Midsummer Nights Dream. Directed by Judith Roby Bidappa, who is making her comeback to direction through Tortilla Entertainment. Bidappa has strayed away from the usual theatre circles, opening the space up to amateur, part time actors instead.

The internationally acclaimed The Golden Dragon will be performed at Jagriti from today.Following the successful staging of Lysistrata, Jagriti Theatre is now set to stage The Golden Dragon, as part of its ongoing theatre festival. A tragicomic tale of globalisation, set in your local Thai\ Chinese\ Vietnamese takeaway, The Golden Dragon— which will be performed by the Olivier Award winning Actors’ Touring Company (TCA) Touring Company, UK, at Jagriti Theatre — received critical acclaim at The Edinburgh Festival. Written by the well-known German playwright Roland Schimmelphennig and translated by David Tushingham, “The Golden Dragon” is a theatrical fable that is placed within larger socio-economic issues of modern society and migration.