October 3, 2020. Online Zoom Performance The show has been produced by EnActe Arts Stage Play Reading Direction- Sukanya Chakrabarti Play – Jeffrey Lo Two millennials must make moral compromises to succeed in the Silicon Valley grind. From the Event page (link)… Intelligent go-getters Zoe and Trey are striving to keep their heads afloat in today’s economy. They’ve graduated from elite schools only to face unemployment and chances at low-paying “McJobs”. They’re underqualified for jobs they want, overqualified for jobs they don’t want. Then Trey comes up with a striking…
The Parting
January 19-21, 2018, Z Space, San Francisco CA. March 23-24, 2018, Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose CA. Written by – Salil Singh with story development by Anurag Wahehra Direction by – Salil Singh Dramaturgy – Sukanya Chakrabarti Interview on KAW – Local Public Radio (91.7FM) (link) From the Event page (link) Dance and Music Director by – Farah Yasmeen Shaikh Music Composer by – Raaginder Singh Momi Visual Designer by – David Murakami Head of Production by – Vinita Sud Belani FACING OUR HISTORY FACING OURSELVES. A retrospective lens into…
Ramayana
Directed by Sukanya Chakrabarti, Anne Yumi Kobori, from a script by Anthony Clarvoe. Oct 13 at 7:30pm; Oct 14 at 4:00pm; Oct 15 at 2:00pm. Quinlan Community Center, Cupertino Produced by SF Shakes and EnActe Arts This fall semester, SF Shakes partners with EnActe Arts and the City of Cupertino for the first time to create a youth production. Students ages 8-18 will join with professional theater artists to tell the action-packed epic Ramayana, following Prince Rama on his quest to battle the Demon King Ravana. Flying monkeys, princesses, monsters,…
Children’s Radio Play on Radio Zindagi
Directed by Sukanya Chakrabarti Radio Zindagi, 1550 AM. Every Saturday, 11:00am. Popular Indian folk talks adapted for US audiences; acting by kids aged 8-12. Produced by EnActe Arts (link)
Soundwaves
April 7-9, 2017, DeAnza Performing Arts Center, Cupertino CA. Written by – Joseph Martin Direction by – Vinita Belani Dramaturgy – Sukanya Chakrabarti From the Event page (link)… Soundwaves is the incredible true story of Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim Indian living in Paris who became the first female radio operator during the Second World War. Trained by Britain as an Allied Special Operations Executive and sent into occupied France, she worked behind enemy lines but was betrayed by a friend, tortured and shot in Dachau on September 13th, 1944.…
Conference of the Birds
September 9-11, 2016, Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose, CA. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Actor and Dancer From the Facebook Event page (link)… Thirty artists representing ten dance traditions spanning four continents feature in a vibrant, multi-sensory interpretation of the timeless Sufi quest narrative – The Conference of the Birds. EnActe Arts and Sangam Arts present a contemporary interpretation of the 12th century Persian poet Farid Attar’s magnum opus – an inspirational parable about the painful but beautiful human journey towards understanding. Hoopoe the wise one calls for a conference of hundreds of…
Chitra, The Warrior Princess
May 8, 2015, Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto Singer in EnActe’s Chitra Dance Drama From Chitra’s website (link)… In honor of his birth anniversary, EnActe honors Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore with a new re-imagining of his acclaimed work Chitra, based on an episode in the Mahabharata. Theatre meets dance as Director Ranjita Chakravarty draws from Tagore’s 1895 one-act Chitra and his 1936 dance-drama Chitrangada to create the spell-binding tale of Chitra, Princess of Manipur. Born to a King promised only male heirs and raised as a male warrior, a chance meeting…
Merchant on Venice
Written by Shishir Kurup, directed by Sonalee Hardikar and Amsalan Doraisingam, An enActe Production, November 2014 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA. Nov 14-22, 2014 Shakespeare brings Bollywood to Venice Blvd Meet the Indian diaspora of Venice Blvd, L.A. in this wickedly funny, wildly inventive and politically provocative re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic. Noorani: Sukanya Chakrabarti Photos from the Performance Promotional Material for the Play