Coconut Theatre, a wing of Coconut Media Box, has taken an ambitious and challenging project during this world-wide lockdown, called “Chai-Wai & Rangmanch – 2020”.
We organize daily online session with one theatre expert from India and various other countries on our official Coconut Theatre Facebook Page at 6pm Indian Standard Time. These may be veteran actors, award winning playwrights and directors, make-up specialist, music composers, designers, choreographers and technicians, who share their experiences, and inspirations.
This may be useful to any aspiring theatre student, amateur theatre artists, writers, directors, music composers, choreographer, make-up artists, designers, technicians and theatre groups.
These sessions are open for all and no registration is required.
Participants include names such as Rita Ganguly, Bansi Kaul, Manoj Joshi, Neelam Mansingh, Satish Alekar, Dadi Pudumjee and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winner Dolly Ahluwalia, Ashok Bhagat, Suresh Sharma (Director – National School of Drama), Amod Bhatt, Anjana Puri, Sanjay Upadhyay, Rohini Hattangady, Nadira Babbar, Himani Shivpuri, Makarand Deshpande, Kewal Dhaliwal, Mahesh Dattani, K.K. Raina, Lillete Dubey, Rakesh Bedi, Ananth Mahadevan, Raghubir Yadav, Lubna Salim, Darshan Jariwala, Siddharth Randeria, Ila Arun, Aanjjan Srivastava, Alok Chatterjee, Salim Arif, Saif Hyder Hasan, Asif Ali Beg, Tiku Talsania, Sachin Khedekar, Sandip Soparrkar, Vijay Kenkre, Nina Kulkarni, Jayati Bhatia, Suchitra Pillai, Vipul Mehta, Jimit Trivedi, Rajoo Barot, Ramesh Talwar, Chandrkant Kulkarni many other senior theatre experts.
If you would like to watch daily live sessions or any previous session, please visit www.facebook.com/CoconutTheatre
Upcoming sessions from 1st July 2020, Theatre legends Mr.M.S.Sathyu and Mr.Prasanna, Mr.Balwant Thakur, Ms.Nina Tiwama, Theatre and Bollywood Actress Sonali Kulkarni, Theatre & Bollywood Actors Rajpal Yadav, Rajat Kapoor and Adil Hussain, Singer and Actress Pallavi MD, Music Director Kuldeep Singh, Eminent Writer Ranjit Kapoor & Saumya Joshi, Famous Actor Sumeet Raghavan, Waman Kendre (Ex-Director – National School of Drama), Director Parvez Akhtar, Popular Actresses Apara Mehta & Bharati Achrekar and on-going.
“Our objective is to connect the entire theatre fraternity on one platform and to emphasize avenue of learning as well as build a career. Our vision is to achieve 100+ sessions before July 31. This archive will be available shortly on Coconut Theatre YouTube Channel at no cost,” said Rashmin Majithia, Managing Director of Coconut Media Box.
– from Coconut Theatre