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Art Beyond Boundaries Saurabh Srivastava’s Gandharv Theatre

Art Beyond Boundaries

Saurabh Srivastava’s ‘Gandharv Theatre’ is a Jaipur & Mumbai based theatre group which not just believes in showing the mirror but infuses the voice that demands change with a chorus.

Saurabh Srivastava the Creative Director of ‘Gandharv Theatre’ has been an active theatre practitioner since 1980 in Allahabad, Vadodara, Hyderabad and Jodhpur before finally settling down in Jaipur and founding the’ Gandharv Theatre’.

Saurabh Srivastava has been continuously translating and adapting drama classics of other languages into Hindi and getting them published and performed. These include Noel Ciward's "Blithe Spirit", Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", Mahesh Elkunchwar's "Raktpushp", Tennessee Wiliams's "The Glass Menagerie" , Lorca's "Yerma",  Krishna Baldev Vaid's "Ek Naukrani ki Diary", Miro Gavran's "The Doll" & "Ek Actor ki Maut", Patric Hamilton's "Gaslight" and Shakespear's "All's Well That Ends Well".

Apart from performing and directing these translations/ adaptations of English, Marathi, Spanish, Croatian plays, Saurabh Srivastava has also performed in and directed plays written by Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Elkunchwar , Vasant Kanetkar, Balwant Gargi , Mannu Bhandari , P. L. Deshpande , Chanakya Sen, Moliere , Laxmi Narayan Lal and K P Saxena.

The aim of ‘Gandharv Theatre’ is to churn out plays that have high literary standards and social concerns.

Like the adaptation of Tennessee Williams iconic play "The Glass Menagerie" which has enjoyed great success at Broadway and in London recently. Saurabh Shrivastava is excited to bring the Hindi version of "The Glass Menagerie" titled Kaanch Kay Khilone’.

Speaking on the occasion, Saurabh Srivastava says, “ "My involvement with theatre began in Allahabad at the age of eighteen, soon it turned into a lifelong passion... and now after doing active theatre for more than three decades,  I dream of  taking my art beyond my own boundaries of creativity...To expand the horizons of my  craft and my own imagination !".

It must be noted that two Hollywood versions of "The Glass Menagerie" , an Iranian adaptation and a Malyalam version  have been made into critically acclaimed films apart from two television productions by CBS Playhouse and ABC. BBC Radio 3 has broadcast its radio version too. It must be very interesting to see how a passionate theater artiste adapts the iconic American play in Hindi.

Saurabh adds that “we have tried to say a ninety-five minutes soulful story of a modern Indian nuclear family intrigued by the mysteries of life in a subtly humorous way. A histrionic mother, a nervous daughter and a dreamy son... everyone as fragile as tiny little figurines of a glass menagerie!”

At times when we see theater losing its charm and running after profits in this rat race where the ‘content’ has to sell at whatever compromise needs to be done, its inspiring to see a pious theatre artiste like Saurabh Srivastava talking about taking his passion beyond the boundaries of his creativity for a memorable theatre experience.

 

      

 



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