I remember being kinda pissed off the first time they turned me away.Rangashankara has always been a stickler for time.If you were late for a show , you missed it..no matter who you were , no matter how much you had paid for the tickets. In a city where an evening outing was synonymous to dancing away at ZeroG or drinking away at Fuga, Rangashankara was like coming home.
I saw my first ever play here... racing against time and a heavy downpour...and it was totally worth it. Since then, I have seen many more at all kinds of places.I have seen places like Kyra claiming to give theater a new dimension while they stage plays,literally in a restaurant. While at Kyra, people chat,come and leave at will, order food and drinks, all while there are people on stage trying to connect to an audience that is often distracted, to say the least; I have heard stories of how at the start of a play at RangaShankara, Mr. Girish Karnad himself got up to close the door left ajar by a hurried member of the audience. It simply boils down to the respect to the stage and the artistes on it.
Bringing up how economical RS has managed to keep theater for the likes of me, is almost berating its larger significance on the fast-homogenizing cultural scene of Bangalore.
A befitting tribute to the man who gave me Malgudi Days when I was a kid and continues to evoke the childlike delight in me with every visit to his temple of art.
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