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Quickie theatre, anybody?

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Jun 15, 2013 06:29 PM IST

What can give you edge-of-the-seat thrills, non-stop histrionics and instant catharsis in a public place? Keep your applause handy for quickie theatre, or 10-minute plays that are the theatrical equivalent of T20 cricket.

What can give you edge-of-the-seat thrills, non-stop histrionics and instant catharsis in a public place? Keep your applause handy for quickie theatre, or 10-minute plays that are the theatrical equivalent of T20 cricket.


Purists may balk at it, but audiences are lapping up a format where they don’t have to sit through a play that may plod on for two hours, says M Sayeed Alam of Pierrot’s Theatre Group. A 10-minute play grips you by the scruff of the neck at the start and doesn’t let go right till the final second, says seasoned playwright and director Sohaila Kapur. In the last few years, the quick-format theatre movement has gained acceptability, particularly since Short and Sweet, the world’s largest 10-minute festival, forayed into India after Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.

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