Kochi: A musical adaptation in Hindi of Shakespeare’s 'Twelfth Night' will be staged in JT PAC on Sunday, November 23rd.
Commissioned for The Globe to Globe Festival, which took place at the Globe theatre in London earlier this year, the play, directed by Atul Kumar of Company Theatre, is a full-throttled take on its original. The adaptation by Amitosh Nagpal who also plays Sebastian, delights with an originality of its own and befits the Nautanki (a folk performance tradition from North India) style of the performance.
Sticking to the original names of the characters, the production nevertheless takes on a distinct Indian idiom with a variety of Hindi dialects. Unmindful of the class hierarchies in the original, here almost all characters appear at par in their social standing as they quite literally jostle their shoulders with each other.
Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, the 120 minute musical combines cruelty with high comedy and the pangs of unrequited love with some of the subtlest poetry and most exquisite songs Shakespeare ever wrote.
For more details and reservations contact 8086881681 / 9349528057.