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The Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner comes to Bengaluru with a show about family, immigration, marriage, history, politics, and beans. Ahir Shah presents his award-winning stand-up show Ends. The show spans six decades, three generations, and two continents, synthesising past and present in search of hope for the future. It’s funnier than it sounds, honestly. Loads of cracking gags.Read More

So tell me, where are you from, now that you're here? Are you from earth's kernels, or a childhood lane? Are you from a summer of love, or your innate politics? Where From, You From Mister/Sister?Read More

Pocketmaar Drama Company is a hilarious and heartwarming adaptation of Asghar Wajahat's Pocketmaar Rangmandal. The play revolves around a quirky and unhinged group of pickpockets (Pocketmaars) who decide to leave behind their life of crime and reform themselves by starting an honest theatre company.Read More

Set in Bombay 1980s, the play follows Harshvardhan Mehra, a bored and ordinary man who becomes embroiled in a thrilling espionage plot after a mysterious woman is murdered in his apartment. Framed for her death, Mehra goes on the run to clear his name and uncover the truth behind 'The 31st February' a secret organisation. The play is known for its innovative staging, with a small cast of eight actors portraying over 50+ characters. Through quick costume changes, clever physicality, and comedic timing, the actors bring to life a variety of roles, from spies and police officers to innkeepers and love interests. It is the first-ever Hindi adaptation of the movie by Alfred Hitchcock and is a must watch show for all theatre enthusiasts across Bangalore.Read More

Refund is a comedy play based on the improbable situation of a student demanding a refund of his school fees because he felt that he was taught nothing. The action consists of the movements of the various characters as they participate in the re- examinationRead More

The story of the Kabuliwala was written by Rabindranath Tagore towards the end of the nineteenth century, published in 1892. That was more than twenty years before he received the Nobel Award for Literature. It was a short story, merely fifteen minutes in narration. It went on to become one of the most loved, most translated and most cited of Tagore’s works in prose. The deep bonds developing spontaneously between a child and a grown-up stranger from two entirely different cultures is one of the strongest testaments of the goodness of humankind. The play Kabuliwala Calling is an original adaptation for the stage developed at Bangalore Little Theatre. The story is presented by the Kabuliwalas of Kolkata themselves. Historical details of the Afghan community are added to provide the context.Read More

What if Death came knocking... and you weren’t ready? Step into the quirky, thought-provoking world of Everybody, a fresh and audacious adaptation of the 15th-century morality play Everyman. Written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Brandon Jacobs Jenkins, this bold theatrical journey dives into life's ultimate question: What will you hold onto when it’s time to let go?Read More

A lot happens to us in daily life. From household chores to paying bills, things make us happy, excited, sad, disturbed. Sometimes we convey our thoughts vocally and react to situations. Sometimes we don't. We just express ourselves. We express ourselves through the tacit tunes of our lonely words, cells, tissues, skins, bones, most importantly our expressions.Read More

Charandas Chor is a classic penned by one of the modern greats of Indian theatre, Mr. Habib Tanveer ji. This play is about a thief named Charandas. Charandas in spite of being a thief is an honest, sympathetic and truthful person who lives by his words . The theme and the characters of the play reveal and depict paradoxes and contradictions of the society and challenges the collective conscience of human nature in a humorous way. Charandas, the so-called hero or anti hero in the play, is what the audience needs to decide. A thought to ponder upon!Read More

The story follows Scout, a young girl growing up in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She and her family are brought into direct contact with the turbulent societal injustices that plagued the South of America. Scout's widowed father Atticus, is a prominent lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, a black man, against alleged rape charges. The story explores themes of racial injustice, loss of innocence, and morality.Read More