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Play: Woyzeck The Hindu Theater Fest 23 August 2012 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall in Bangalore “Love-Lust-Infidelity-Revenge-Remorse”, is a vicious cycle of emotions which have been so ruthlessly true from stone-age and more common in the age of “Short- Message-Service”. Woyzeck a poor German soldier is betrayed by his mistress to his sergeant major. He decides to take revenge and kills his mistress Marie who was actually by then remorseful for her actions. If talked as above, Woyzeck would have just passed on as another performance. But it doesn’t. The play though advertised as Korean speaks no language but emotions. The characters, the props (chairs) add to the emotional intensity that keeps the audience spellbound yet curious. The music adds to the intensity of emotions and evokes melody, intimidation, reproach and pity all at the same time yet in isolation. The props are dismantled and rearranged in no time and speaks of the discipline the performers hav

A Walk In The Woods Note: This is an independent review of the play held on August 17 2012 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall. The Play: A Walk In The Woods The Cast: Rajit Kapur and Naseeruddin Shah History: This play has been adapted from the original with the same name by Lee Blessing. Lee was inspired by a real incident happened in 1982 in Geneva when the two negotiators Paul H. Nitze (USA) and Yuli A. Kvitsinsky (USSR) left for an unofficial walk in the woods and came up with a breakthrough. The breakthrough was rejected pretty soon by their respective governments. This piece of USA-USSR history draws tremendous parallels to that of India-Pakistan and the duo Faishal Rashid and Randeep Hooda do just an impeccable job there in this sub-continental adaptation of the play. Adapted By: Faisal Rashid and Randeep Hooda Directed By: Ratna Pathak Shah (Debutant direction) The Prelude to the Play: Riding on a borrowed bike and the beautiful voice

Dish Name: Halle 29/11 Recipe ü   Black Pepper + Mace + Clarified Butter Steamed Rice Take two cups of rice (or what suits your need). Add a spoon of clarified butter to the rice and mix it well. Put the clarified butter marinated rice in the cooker with water just a cup more than the rice in quantity. Put three small balls of black pepper and five to eight leaves of fine mace ( javitri ). Let the whistle blow for three or four times before you get it down. ü   Fried Bitter Gourd Take a bitter gourd just a bit better bitter than your wife Chop it into thin round slices nice! Take some refined oil in a frying pan and put it on the gas A little less miserly than the wife who has become so brass, Put a few green chillies nicely chopped into the oil You will do it better than the wife and without any turmoil! One after the other the fine chopped onions go Immediately followed by the ginger-garlic so! And then add these in chronological order: