Namaskar! The
Shakespeare Sabha of St. Stephen’s College welcomes you in our exploration into
the various aspects of the marvellous world of the Rangmanch.
We believe that every
aspect of this realm and the ones outside it can be lived in the microcosmic universe
which we refer to as the stage or the Rangmanch. The Rangmanch is not merely a
performance space but a sacred space where many rules of this world bow down in
front of the energy of theatre. It is a space where the mundane becomes the
divine and yet the notion of divinity is put under scrutiny - it is the
reflection of the society and yet the champion of social revolution. It has
been nourished for eons by the state and the civilization and yet from it were
born the seeds of the end of those civilizations and the collapse of that state.
The Rangmanch becomes the mouthpiece of the subaltern whose tongues have been
uprooted – it projects what is unheard. It pulls aside the curtain of ignorance
and brings truth in the spotlight. It liberates the individual from the tyranny
of life and death as a character dies in a show only to live again in the next
show.
The Shakespeare Sabha
strives relentlessly to unravel and learn from every aspect of this Rangmanch –
we work with proscenium theatre, open-air theatre, street theatre as well as
experimental ventures like the currently-germinating concept of a vertical
stage experiment. We believe that the Rangmanch is the Rangbhoomi – the Karmabhoomi.
Heptullah.
-
Chhayankdhar Singh Rathore
Secretary
(Shakespeare Sabha)
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