E. AlkaziT h e T h e a t r e o f

Throughout the year from Oct 18th, 2015 to Oct 18th, 2016 Art Heritage Gallery and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts have organized a series of events to celebrate Ebrahim Alkazi’s 90th year. Beginning with a large get together of theatre persons, artists and well- wishers on Alkazi’s 90th birthday in 2015, an exhaustive exhibition: The Theatre of E. Alkazi followed. Accompanied by a catalog and a set of posters of Alkazi’s productions, the exhibition was inaugurated in New Delhi at the Lalit Kala Galleries in Jan 2016. The publication Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing Art deals with Alkazi’s contribution to the visual arts. It was launched at the India Art Summit, 2016 , also in January. An Ebrahim Alkazi Award for Two Outstanding Young Photographers has been instituted this year, with the awardees selected by a group of four international jurors. The awardees Nandita Raman and Nishant Shukla will display their work in progress at Art Heritage Gallery from August 19th to September 18th, 2016. After its exposure to Mumbai audiences, the theatre exhibition will travel to other metro cities as well.

Ebrahim Alkazi: Directing ArtThe Making of a Modern Indian Art WorldEdited by Parul Dave-Mukherji

This unique volume, authored by a host of reputed scholars, offers a tribute to the legendary art aesthete, Ebrahim Alkazi, acknowledging his immense contribution to the making,

dissemination and public reception of modern Indian art. Keeping its focus on Art Heritage-a key institution setup by Alkazi, this volume signals a specific narrative of 20th century Indian art, told through Alkazi’s practices of collecting, curating, editing and art writing. Inhabiting an interstitial space between threatre and art, Alkazi occupies a distinct place in the history of modern India.

Contributing Authors: Partha Mitter, Yashodhara Dalmia, Shukla Sawant, Devika Singh, Akansha Rastogi and Amal Allana

` 5500 | discount of 20% on opening day364 pages | 408 illustrations

The Theatre of E. AlkaziA Modernist Approach to Indian Theatre

The catalog that accompanies the exhibition: The Theatre of E. Alkazi, traces the life and career of the distinguished theatre educationist, director, designer and an actor par excellence through a

detailed timeline. Copiously illustrated with rare photographs of the family, his activities and most importantly his productions from as far back as the 1940s to the 1990s, we travel along Alkazi’s journey as he establishes key theatre institutions in Bombay like the Theatre Group and Theatre Unit in the 1950s and 60s, followed by him assuming Directorship of the National School of Drama in New Delhi. Over sixteen years from 1962 to ‘77, Alkazi overhauls the curriculum and transforms the unassuming little space into an institution of national and international repute that produces some of the most outstanding actors and directors of the stage and screen in modern times.

` 1000 | discount of 20% on opening day and for students !

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“The systematic study and practical

performing experience of Sanskrit drama,

modern Indian drama, traditional Indian

forms, Asian drama, and Western drama

gives the student such a solid grounding

and such a wide perspective that he cannot

possibly pursue an erratic course later in his

professional career. It also enables him to

see each form of dramatic expression as part

of a historical process, in relation to its own

time and period, and as one element in a

continuing universal moment.”

– E. Alkazi

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“The systematic study and practical

performing experience of Sanskrit drama,

modern Indian drama, traditional Indian

forms, Asian drama, and Western drama

gives the student such a solid grounding

and such a wide perspective that he cannot

possibly pursue an erratic course later in his

professional career. It also enables him to

see each form of dramatic expression as part

of a historical process, in relation to its own

time and period, and as one element in a

continuing universal moment.”

– E. Alkazi

19:30 Rangayan (Ticketed)“Jeevit ya Mrit” – A monologue tracing the inner journeys of Kadambari through dream, desire, and hallucination based on theme of living or dead performed by Seema Biswas, Directed by Anuradha Kapur

18:00 Closing curatorial walkthrough with Amal Allana Museum Galleries

18:00 Krishnayan‘Scenography of E.Alkazi’ by Dr. Nissar Allana – A talk about sets and set designs of the theatre doyen, E. Alkazi

18:00 KrishnayanYoung theatre directors from Rajasthan – Vishal Vijay and Ashok Banthia

Seema Biswas and Hema Singh in conversation with one another with reference to E. Alkazi’s production of ‘Din Ke Andhere Mein’

17:00 Krishnayan

16:15 KrishnayanAmal Allana on Alkazi’s actor training using rehearsal videos

15:00 A curatorial walkthrough by Amal Allana Museum Galleries

17:45 Film on Alkazi Museum Gallery 1

27 March, 2017 MONDAY

28 March, 2017 TUESDAY

4 May, 2017 TUESDAY

5 May, 2017 WEDNESDAY

17:00 Museum Gallery 1Inauguration of the exhibition by Mohan Maharishi followed by a talk

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

28 March - 6 May, 2017 (11:00 - 19:00)

Exhibition Opening on 27 March, 2017 at 17:00

Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays

JKK Museum Galleries, The Contemporary

Exhibition support