Productions Utopia

Return to Lucknow

If you have been following this blogsite, and the projects it describes, from the beginning, you will know that I try to look for new projects, new productions, each year. 

Theatre sans frontieres

The title is mine, I’m afraid, pitched at CMS’s fondness for mysterious titles in foreign languages, but it describes the premise well enough: taking students from different parts of India

Utopia begins

I was allotted a three-hour slot this morning – my final, and in most cases my only – opportunity to meet and assess the participants in the program. This would

Utopia rehearsal

Rehearsals began, after I had handed out the scripts and assigned the roles. And we now had a full contingent, with our two absentees making an appearance. Something of a

Technical/dress rehearsal

Our time to move onto the stage, for the only opportunity we would get to run it there. But that would be in the afternoon. In the morning, another rehearsal

Performance day

And so it is here, the culmination of the project… reached with a modicum of relief. Not that it has been entirely without pleasure. I always enjoy meeting, and working

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