French fables of Indian origin!

(Thank you Shibani, for fgorwarding this one)

Alliance Française de Bangalore, Artistes' Repertory Theatre (ART)
&
the Embassy of France in India

present

FABULATANTRA

A collaborative venture on the fables of Jean de La Fontaine and the Panchatantra.

This is a play directed by Arundhati Raja

27th,2 8th and 29th of April
7.30p.m. Auditorium, Alliance Française de Bangalore

Entry Free

Every few days, the auditorium of Alliance Franciase de Bangalore comes alive to the sounds of crabs, coromorants, wolves and thieves. Actors from Bangalore are rehearsing for FabulaTantra, the product of an artistic collaboration between the Alliance Francaise and Artistes' Repertory Theatre - one of Bangalore's best-known theatre groups.

This present-day Indo-French collaboration will celebrate a more inadvertant collaboration from antiquity. The fables of Jean de la Fontaine are to France what the Panchatantra is to India. La Fontaine took inspiration from a myriad of sources for his fables, and one of them was Visnu Sharma's fabled teachings: the stories known as the Panchatantra.

FabulaTantra will celebrate both the exuberant simplicity and cunning slant of the fable in an energetic presentation of dance, music and theatre. It will focus on the French fables that have Indian origins and let us see two sides of a very similar world. It is strange to remember how far apart these worlds were, both geographically and temporally, when one sees how well these stories and their contexts mingle on stage

with
Darius Sunawalla, Ruchika Chanana, Arati Punwani, Harish Seshadri, Kartik Kumar, Maitri Gopalakrishna and Pritham Kumar


Script - Gautam Raja Music – Tara Kini Choreographer - Helene Marionneau


Directed by Arundhati Raja

For further information, please contact : 41231340 /43 / 44 /45

regards

Priyamvada Majumdar
Cultural Coordinator
Alliance Française de Bangalore
Ph: 41231340 / 43 /44