Maya Tangeberg Grischin June 8, 2011 My first experience with Kathakali was in Stockholm in 1974. I was then a angry young theatre director and performer of physical theatre, rejecting the European psychologiical, “realist” theatre conditioned by Rotowski and Barba! I considered Kathakali as highly energic, techniical, exotic and even Read more…
Ethiravan Kathiravan June 5, 2011 There is no other theater form which imposes a world of illusion the way Kathakali does. Grandeur unparalleled, befittingly non-worldly, stylization ultimate, drama evocative and magically surrealistic, Kathakali is the wonder of theater. Often designated as total theater, Kathakali offers more than theatrics. It encompasses Read more…
Mohanan Nambiarath September 3, 2011 ‘King Oedipus’ is a Katnakai adaption of the play by the same name, written by Scphocles. Sophocies was a dramatist and play writer who lived in 4th century B.C. in ancient Greece. He has written several plays. of which 4 of them are about the Read more…
Keleeravam news July 8, 2012 Padmashree Keezhpadam Kumaran Nair, an outstanding Kathakali actor and a highly respected master of the art form was a rare and distinct personality in the domain of Kathakali. Be it among his peer group or the modern day Kathakali actors, Keezhpadam is a stalwart in Read more…
Prof.(Rtd.) C.P. Unnikrishnan July 28, 2012 The few lines I write are just few reflections and my personal feelings and thoughts about a great Kathakali vesham artist ie. Kumarnaasaan; and is just an exposition of my aesthetic sensibility of which there is no claim of any standard. Incidentally, Kumaranaasaan happens Read more…
Sreevalsan Thiyyadi August 13, 2012 The consistent recurrence of the tragedy has tormented the Brahmin beyond consolation. Every time his wife delivered, the child would be stillborn. This was the ninth time he was appearing with the dead infant at Krishna’s durbar for relief. And the famously kind lord was Read more…
Sreevalsan Thiyyadi January 4, 2013 In an art form that has basically banked on Hindu mythology for themes and aristocratic Brahmins for patronage, the rise of a Muslim musician in the second half of the 20th century naturally evoked curiosity within Kathakali circles — even among those outside the circuit. Read more…