Imagine yourself sitting in one of the finest gold-gilded, velvet-lined theatres of old world Romanticism. The overture begins; it’s a haunting tune of love and melancholy laced with epic undertones. Hold that thought. Now shrink it to proportions appropriate to finger puppets and you have the opening stanzas of ‘The Cautionary Tale of Barry Von […]

Despite being marketed as one of Shakespeare’s “least famous comedies,” this modernised version of ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ has the Bard to thank for some of its most redeeming attributes. Although widely regarded as one of his earliest (and weakest) plays, director Sharmini Kumar obviously concluded that even as a novice who was experimenting […]