... and we're not completely back yet. We just decided to post in case "Without A Trace" decided to profile us. It's best that we keep it short and simple...
1. For those who attended the audition and are wondering whether it was a fraud: No, it was real. There were some serious hiccups with respect to the venue and some non-trivial acting roles we needed for the play. Serious enough to postpone it until we could sort things out, and serious enough that they have not been sorted out yet. Apologies for keeping you hanging, but we're kinda dangling by the short and curlies ourselves. We have your email addresses (which we have not sold to any direct marketing company) and will get back to you all just as soon as we figure things out. Thought we owed you guys this much info at least...
2. We have not been completely idle though: We did a theatre workshop @ Festember (NIT Trichy). It was a fun and hectic 2 days, and we are amazed we survived the searing Trichy heat after the cooler climes of Bangalore. In other news, we rocked that workshop...
3. We also work: And this continues to be the root cause of all delays. Part-time theatre enthusiasts - you know our pain...
More later.
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Dhan te nan... Dhan te nan... Ok, that's enough!
Ok, so we're really tired of lazing around. And thanks to Aashish our asses are now moving instead of sitting and obfeffing about which parts in Kaminey were Guy Ritchie-inspired and which were Tarantino-inspired.
So here we are again with auditions for our next production. Like our last production, this production is equally ambitious, if not more. We are auditioning for a few major roles, a few minor roles, and an odd-job guy to do our household chores while we are at rehearsals. We are also on the lookout for members of our production team. The requirements to qualify for our auditions are as follows:
- Odd-job guy: Elaborate curriculum vitae describing previous work-experience, long and short term career goals, 3 essays, GMAT score, CAT percentile, and a stress interview.
- Major/Minor acting roles, Production team: 20 minutes of your time on the day of the audition (phew! too much!!)
The audition details are as follows:
- Date: 29-30 August 2009 (Sat, Sun)
- Time: 4pm to 7pm (on each day)
- Venue: MoD Headquarters...
101 Arien Edifice,
A-cross, Nanja Reddy Colony
Opp. Kempfort (now Total Mall)
Old Airport Road
(We love calling it our headquarters just to make it sound cooler. So please don't be disappointed if you don't see a nice water fountain, free chocolates, and a hot receptionist)
In case you have any queries regarding the auditions, or Rakhi ka Swayamvar, please feel free to mail us at merchants.of.drama@gmail.com . Or you can call any of the following people:
- Aashish: 96119 09290
- Rakesh: 99019 67330
- Faiq : 93425 04426
So if you are a thespian, a colourful lights guy, a fancy costume person, or just someone who can spell 'theatre' - do drop by for some fun. See you!
PS: We are working on the hot receptionist bit
PPS: There will actually be free chocolates
"Aaja ki oneway hai yeh zindagi ki gali, Ek hi chance hai,
Aage hawa hi hawa hai agar saans hai to, Yeh romance hai.
Dhan te nan, te ne na na"
- Kaminey
Friday, 13 March 2009
Planning to stay PUT at home this weekend? Think again...
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
MoD is back. And this is for all our fans who have been eagerly awaiting our decision - we are NOT giving up theatre to contest in the Lok Sabha polls (Mind you, the option looked quite tantalizing given the amount of intelligence, or lack of it, required to contest). Instead, PGK is scripting a play, Ramdas is watching Boston Legal and Rakesh is analyzing South Africa’s home defeat.
Unlike corporates we do not get any pleasure out of saying the sequence of words “You Are Fired” in a deep voice. Instead we would love to say “You Are Hired” in a deep voice. And that is exactly what we are doing. We are looking for actors and production crew members for our next play, the script for which is shaping up really well. We are thus holding open auditions this weekend. The details for the same are provided below:
Date: 14th and 15th of March, 2009.
Time: 4pm to 8pm
Venue: 101, Arien Edifice,
‘A’ Cross Nanja Reddy Colony,
Opp Kempfort (Now Total Mall),
Old Airport Road,
Bangalore – 987654 (Ok, the pin code is incorrect. Will you sue us? Bring it on!)
Oh, and we apologise for the short notice. As it is fashionable these days about everything, blame it on the recession. So, if any of you folks really want to make a fool of yourself but can't do so this weekend, shoot us a mail or call us and let's see if we can work something out.
PS: Please be on time or else you will be shipped to New Zealand and be made to bowl at Sehwag.
PPS: Pepsi, Kaapi Macha, etc to be sponsored by the MoD Squad.
PPPS: You are welcome even only just for the freebies.
In case you have any queries, don’t request the database (Ok, bad one :P ). Mail us at merchants.of.drama@gmail.com or feel free to call anyone of the following:
Praveen (PGK): 99002-12387
Rakesh (Steve): 99019-67330
Faiq (Faiq): 93425-04426
MoD is back. And this is for all our fans who have been eagerly awaiting our decision - we are NOT giving up theatre to contest in the Lok Sabha polls (Mind you, the option looked quite tantalizing given the amount of intelligence, or lack of it, required to contest). Instead, PGK is scripting a play, Ramdas is watching Boston Legal and Rakesh is analyzing South Africa’s home defeat.
Unlike corporates we do not get any pleasure out of saying the sequence of words “You Are Fired” in a deep voice. Instead we would love to say “You Are Hired” in a deep voice. And that is exactly what we are doing. We are looking for actors and production crew members for our next play, the script for which is shaping up really well. We are thus holding open auditions this weekend. The details for the same are provided below:
Date: 14th and 15th of March, 2009.
Time: 4pm to 8pm
Venue: 101, Arien Edifice,
‘A’ Cross Nanja Reddy Colony,
Opp Kempfort (Now Total Mall),
Old Airport Road,
Bangalore – 987654 (Ok, the pin code is incorrect. Will you sue us? Bring it on!)
Oh, and we apologise for the short notice. As it is fashionable these days about everything, blame it on the recession. So, if any of you folks really want to make a fool of yourself but can't do so this weekend, shoot us a mail or call us and let's see if we can work something out.
PS: Please be on time or else you will be shipped to New Zealand and be made to bowl at Sehwag.
PPS: Pepsi, Kaapi Macha, etc to be sponsored by the MoD Squad.
PPPS: You are welcome even only just for the freebies.
In case you have any queries, don’t request the database (Ok, bad one :P ). Mail us at merchants.of.drama@gmail.com or feel free to call anyone of the following:
Praveen (PGK): 99002-12387
Rakesh (Steve): 99019-67330
Faiq (Faiq): 93425-04426
Monday, 7 July 2008
T minus 100 hours
One week ago, the Indian Express and the Times of India reported that a Nazi war criminal was identified and arrested after remaining in hiding for over 50 years (link). The story later turned out to be a hoax (link).
This weekend at Alliance Francaise, a 16 year old boy will show you how it could have all been true.
Thursday, 3 July 2008
An Apt Pupil !!
Aaaand... after the usual procrastination we bring you *drumroll*... (Click on image for details)
The play will be staged at the Alliance Francaise (Off Cunningham Road) on the 11th and 12th of July at 7 pm.
For donor passes priced at Rs.100 each, call 99808-62727 or 99002-12387. Else, just login to buzzintown.com mail us at: merchants.of.drama@gmail.com . Tickets are also available at Crossword on Residency Road and the Alliance Café.
Based on the novella by Stephen King, and adapted for the stage by Praveen Gopal Krishnan, this play is an 11-character drama that explores the themes of guilt, corruption and dubious relationships. In an Apt Pupil, a young Nazi-obsessed American high school student, Todd Bowden, blackmails a WW2 war criminal, Kurt Dussander, to entertain him with gory tales of the death camps. As he spends more time with the old man, the tales of the past seduce and possess both Todd and Dussander. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat thriller involving impersonation, dream sequences, murder and blackmail. After all, is it possible to be exposed to murder piled upon murder and not be touched by it? An Apt Pupil is a primarily about evil - and how the human mind chooses to see it.
Update: The cast includes Rakesh Krishnan, Saumya Garg, Parijat Mukherjee, Santosh S, Akhila Koneri, Faiq Gazdhar, Mayank Rungta, Shridha Tyagi and Vivek Shah with sounds by Amit Barde.
The play will be staged at the Alliance Francaise (Off Cunningham Road) on the 11th and 12th of July at 7 pm.
For donor passes priced at Rs.100 each, call 99808-62727 or 99002-12387. Else, just login to buzzintown.com mail us at: merchants.of.drama@gmail.com . Tickets are also available at Crossword on Residency Road and the Alliance Café.
“But maybe for all of you, there's something about what the Germans did which excites you - something that opens the coffins of your imagination. Maybe part of your dread and horror comes from a secret knowledge that under the right- or wrong set of circumstances the things that live in your coffins would be glad to crawl out...”
– An Apt Pupil
Based on the novella by Stephen King, and adapted for the stage by Praveen Gopal Krishnan, this play is an 11-character drama that explores the themes of guilt, corruption and dubious relationships. In an Apt Pupil, a young Nazi-obsessed American high school student, Todd Bowden, blackmails a WW2 war criminal, Kurt Dussander, to entertain him with gory tales of the death camps. As he spends more time with the old man, the tales of the past seduce and possess both Todd and Dussander. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat thriller involving impersonation, dream sequences, murder and blackmail. After all, is it possible to be exposed to murder piled upon murder and not be touched by it? An Apt Pupil is a primarily about evil - and how the human mind chooses to see it.
Update: The cast includes Rakesh Krishnan, Saumya Garg, Parijat Mukherjee, Santosh S, Akhila Koneri, Faiq Gazdhar, Mayank Rungta, Shridha Tyagi and Vivek Shah with sounds by Amit Barde.
Monday, 30 June 2008
Quid plug quo..
Yes. We are aware that we aren't discussing our upcoming play much - but that's mostly because we are too busy working on it. 11 characters,15 scenes and 10 tireless backstage people can be a logistical nightmare you know, especially if we do this part-time. But the good news is that the show is shaping along nicely, so we hope to keep you riveted when we take to stage 12 days from now.
Firstly, a huge thanks to Evam for giving us a hand with publicity last weekend at Rangashankara. Most of the production crew were at RS that weekend helping Evam out with the brilliant Doubles, Triples and Quadruples. Some of us even managed to catch the show and our unanimous review of the play is thus - Awesome.
An inevitable quick plug though - Evam is showing ART on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at RS at 7:30pm (PGK highly recommends this one, it's his favourite Evam play - and we take his word seriously, mostly because he can fire us all if he wants to..heh heh...). Block tickets at www.evam.in and go for it!
Firstly, a huge thanks to Evam for giving us a hand with publicity last weekend at Rangashankara. Most of the production crew were at RS that weekend helping Evam out with the brilliant Doubles, Triples and Quadruples. Some of us even managed to catch the show and our unanimous review of the play is thus - Awesome.
An inevitable quick plug though - Evam is showing ART on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at RS at 7:30pm (PGK highly recommends this one, it's his favourite Evam play - and we take his word seriously, mostly because he can fire us all if he wants to..heh heh...). Block tickets at www.evam.in and go for it!
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
New Logo!
Since anything - even spotlights, designed through PGK's dexterous use of Photoshop somehow ends up looking like ...er... a part of the male anatomy, the rest of the MoD Squad over-ruled the leader and came up with a new spiffy logo instead.
And the result - mostly after some regular Gaussian fading of 2.2 and 5.2, cross-layer distortion and inter-temporal chaos Harding effect is...
P.S: Credits - Sapna and Pari. And Adobe, of course...and that nice, friendly man who sells pirated software CDs at Majestic.
And the result - mostly after some regular Gaussian fading of 2.2 and 5.2, cross-layer distortion and inter-temporal chaos Harding effect is...
P.S: Credits - Sapna and Pari. And Adobe, of course...and that nice, friendly man who sells pirated software CDs at Majestic.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
The Final Countdown
With the IPL finally over,
The antics of Shahrukh and Johar,
And the Redskins turning sober,
Pseudo managerial instincts getting stronger,
No time for a blog, but only Twitter,
Practice is getting bigger, faster and better
Time and tide wait for none,
Is what old people say when they are almost done,
The time has come, (Read like an over-enthusiastic Filmfare Awards presenter),
Finally to mix practice sessions with rum,
Unless rain or elections should come
The script is ready,
The actors look steady,
The play even has a teddy,
Thus gears up Em O Dee
With PGK and Rakesh living the grind,
Leaving the unpacking and cleaning maid behind,
@Boss: If we haven’t shaved, please don’t mind
Ash to ash, dust to dust, venue to venue,
The Squad is trying to present something big and new
A good audience and the blessings of BSB is all we seek before the final 3, 2, 1
The antics of Shahrukh and Johar,
And the Redskins turning sober,
Pseudo managerial instincts getting stronger,
No time for a blog, but only Twitter,
Practice is getting bigger, faster and better
Time and tide wait for none,
Is what old people say when they are almost done,
The time has come, (Read like an over-enthusiastic Filmfare Awards presenter),
Finally to mix practice sessions with rum,
Unless rain or elections should come
The script is ready,
The actors look steady,
The play even has a teddy,
Thus gears up Em O Dee
With PGK and Rakesh living the grind,
Leaving the unpacking and cleaning maid behind,
@Boss: If we haven’t shaved, please don’t mind
Ash to ash, dust to dust, venue to venue,
The Squad is trying to present something big and new
A good audience and the blessings of BSB is all we seek before the final 3, 2, 1
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Rehearsals aka 'Battle without Honor or Humanity'
The cast has been more or less picked, more - we hope. While PGK has been having sleepless nights working on the script, the actors are slowly getting into their groove. A couple of readings have been completed, and we can safely say that this is our most ambitious production...yet.
Do let us know what you thought about the teaser poster, we plan to release the main poster in a month or so - till then, do watch this space.
Oh, and while we do not need actors, we do have a couple of slots left for the production team so if you are wondering if you are too late, you aren't. Get in touch with us!
Keep the emails flowing in, and no - for the last time, we DO NOT have any Golden Globes for you. I don't care if you are willing to pay by the hour. All these rumours about us these other jealous theatre groups spread, I tell you!
Cheers!
P.S: Psst...Will suntanned dark-brownish Globes fit the bill instead??
Do let us know what you thought about the teaser poster, we plan to release the main poster in a month or so - till then, do watch this space.
Oh, and while we do not need actors, we do have a couple of slots left for the production team so if you are wondering if you are too late, you aren't. Get in touch with us!
Keep the emails flowing in, and no - for the last time, we DO NOT have any Golden Globes for you. I don't care if you are willing to pay by the hour. All these rumours about us these other jealous theatre groups spread, I tell you!
Cheers!
P.S: Psst...Will suntanned dark-brownish Globes fit the bill instead??
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
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