FOR THE
PRESS
WELCOME,
We at “Kartaal Productions”
welcome you all in announcing our forthcoming Production in Hyderabad.
Our first
Press Release was
held on January 16th 2010 introducing ourselves, the Productions
and causes, under the auspices of the Consulate General of the United
States of America, here in Hyderabad, Kartaal Productions, produced “A Street Car Named Desire,” the Pulitzer Winning play by the renowned
and esteemed playwright of the United States, Mr. Tennessee Williams.
Major proceeds
from
the sales of our production this year will be donated to two causes
namely, the AIDS / HIV impacted children in Andhra Pradesh and a program
to promote reading amongst needy children, under the Mahila Mandali,
Chirala, founded and run by Mrs. Lakshmi Padmavathi (Former Minister
Andhra Pradesh).
This year we open in Hyderabad
again, and bring to the theatre, literature and art lovers yet another
Broadway Classic, Edward Albee’s “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” This was a Pulitzer Prize winner and this year marks the 50th
continuous running year of the play worldwide. To add greater
impact to our productions, this year we have requested and received
the nod of Maestro Ilayaraja, who shall compose and conduct the music
for our play. This is the first time in the history of theatre
that the Maestro shall be writing music for a play, and we are very
happy to share with you that he shall be doing so for theatre of our
state.
This is
our third production.
We had also presented an issue-based documentary on the oldest theatre
group in the world, based in our state, “Surabhi Natya Mandali,” with the title, “AMMULU”
Directed by Dr. K S I, and is currently doing the rounds of several
international film festivals.
THIS
YEAR’S
theatrical
endeavor “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” will
be Produced by Seema Azharuddin and Directed by Dr. K. Shrikanth Iyengar.
We are pleased that our multiple sponsors have shown their enthusiasm
for this production. We would like to mention the gracious partnership
with ANDHRA PRADESH TOURISM, APSACS, SEAGRAMS, AIRTEL, ITC, PCH ZONE,
G L MANDANI TRUST, MANJEERA GROUP, SBH, & J W MARRIOTT.
CAST & CREW:
Seema Azharuddin
Dr. K. Shrikanth
Iyengar
Kamal Kamaraju
&
Sumi
Directed
by: dr. k s i
Music Composed & Conducted by: Maestro Ilayaraja
Art Director: Krishna
Maya
Cimematography & Lights: Tanikella Rajendra Prasad
Still Photography: Narottam
Raj Asthana
Executive
Direction: Hari Murthy
Event Managed
by: Evolution Entertainments
“kara”
= hands “taala” = clapping
‘the joining
of hands!’
MOTTO:
To enrich one
and all with the ELIXIR OF ART
AIM:
To present
THEATRE in ‘ITS OWN ABSOLUTE PULCHRITUDE,’ as it was
always meant to be.
MISSION
STATEMENT:
To find purpose
in all of our endeavours and extending our appreciation to our own ‘HEROES OF LIFE’ and a helping hand to those ‘DESERVING
NEEDY.’
VIRTUES:
With a rich familial, educational
and experience background myself, and with the kindness of the ‘EQUAL
WINGMEN’ in my team, I hope to surge forward in all ‘DILIGENCE,
DEDICATION AND DEVOTION.’
DATES, VENUE & TIME
PREVIEW
NIGHT:
5TH
OCTOBER, 2011
MARRIOTT CONVENTION
CENTRE
6:30 PM ONWARDS
(SHOW BEGINS 8:00 PM)
BY INVITATION
ONLY
THE PERFORMANCE
DATES ARE:
22ND,
23RD, & 24TH OCTOBER, 2011
RAVINDRA BHARATHI
7:00 PM ONWARDS
ABOUT THE
PLAY:
Edward Albee's “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf”is a disturbing and powerful work. Ironically, it is disturbing and
powerful for many of the same reasons. As the audience watches George
and Martha tear savagely at each other with the knives of hurled words,
with a younger couple Nick and Honey, used as pawns and witnesses, sharpened
on pain and aimed to draw blood, the way in which these two relentlessly
go at each other is awful to see, yet strangely familiar. Like wounded
animals, they strike out at those closest to them, and reminds one of
scenes witnessed as a child between screaming parents from a cracked
door when one is supposed to be in bed. In this age of psychoanalytic
jargon, George and Martha are the quintessentially dysfunctional couple.
Yet, with all
their problems, Albee reveals that there is a positive core of feeling
that unites these two troubled people and that helps them look beyond
their self-created hell. The truth of their relationship is exposed
layer by layer as the play progresses, like the peeling of an onion,
and though the pattern of this truth appears vague at first, with each
cycle of revelation, the pattern becomes more distinct, and the picture
is fully revealed in the final, cathartic scene. One of the most consistent
themes of the play is the question of George and Martha's "child,"
and all that this child, and children in general, symbolizes for them.
The "child" seems not only a desire for fecundity within their
relationship, but also a projection through which they express many
of their personal desires, needs, and problems, and, in this context,
the child's subsequent "death" signifies a milestone in their
understanding of their marriage and of themselves. By the end of play,
after much suffering and flagellation, George and Martha appear ready
to deal with their lives in a new way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Edeward Albee 
Edward Albee
was born Edward Harvey in Washington, D.C. At the age of two weeks,
he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Reed Albee of Larchmont, New York, and
renamed Edward Franklin Albee III. He was expelled from two private
schools before graduating from Choate, and dropped out of Trinity College
in Hartford, Connecticut midway through his sophomore year.
At 20, he broke
with his family and moved to Greenwich Village. He never saw his father
again, and would not see his mother for 17 years. In only a few
years, Albee emerged as the leading light of the burgeoning Off-Broadway
movement. By 1962, he was ready to storm Broadway, the bastion of commercial
theater in America. His first Broadway production, Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?, was a runaway success and a critical sensation.
The play received a Tony Award, and Albee was enshrined in the pantheon
of American dramatists alongside Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee
Williams.
THANK YOU
