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Taking Sides | A Theatre Play by Atul Kumar

Aug 16 2024 – 7:30pm-10:00pm

About the event

Set in post-World War II Germany, Taking Sides investigates the world-famous music conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler. The play delves into music, art, culture, politics, and ethics.

ABOUT THE PLAY
Written by Ronald Harwood and directed by Atul Kumar, this play is set in post-World War II Germany, during the period of ‘denazification’. While on the surface the play is about the investigation of a world-famous music conductor of that time -Wilhelm Furtwangler -it takes on larger discussions and motifs throughout – spanning music, art, culture, life, politics, morality, ethics, and more.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Atul Kumar is The Company Theatre’s founder member. An acclaimed actor and director with more than 30 years of performance experience, Atul has dabbled with different languages and forms of theatre & has showcased his work all over India & abroad. His basic performance training was in the traditional Indian dance and martial art forms of Kathakali and Kalerippayettu in Kerala. He also learned from his various travels abroad where he worked with Compagnie Philippe Genty in Paris- France & Sacramento Theatre Company in California- USA. Atul was invited by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in the UK to direct for their International Theatre Festival. He has served as a steering committee member of the International Network for Cultural Diversity, Canada and often participates in conferences, seminars and forums that are concerned with larger issues of art and culture.

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IFBE

The Ice Factory at Ballard Estate (IFBE) is an experimental laboratory for transdisciplinary practices across modern and contemporary architecture, art, and pedagogy. The conserved and refashioned structure is itself a historical object; its complexity, diversity, and paradoxical forms of architecture are instruments for the invention of knowledge. Malik Architecture has created an architecture that does not settle, one with spaces to breathe through a crystallization and mutation of traditional, modern, and contemporary experiments. A century-old embodiment... of “the dreams that stuff is made of.” IFBE’s community of architects, artists, scholars, and students exists in the expanding complexity and multiplicity of the present without sacrificing a fidelity to pasts and archiving, to build and chronicle in the here and now, what Reinhard Koselleck felicitously called “futures past.”