Coconut Theatre connects the World Theatre through “Chai-Wai and Rangmanch 2020” Watch theatre artists talk LIVE!; No registration required

Coconut Theatre has taken an ambitious and challenging project during this World-wide lockdown. Coconut Theatre has come up with an Intellectual Property – “Chai-Wai &

Rangmanch – 2020”. They organize daily one Online Session with one Theatre Expert from India and various other countries on their official Coconut Theatre Facebook Page at 6 PM Indian Standard Time. These sessions are open for all and no registration is required.

Veteran Actors, Award Winning Playwrights & Directors, Make-up Specialist, Music Composers, Designers, Choreographers and Technicians share their Golden

Experiences, also their personal life Inspiration which can be useful to any aspiring Theatre

Student, Amateur Theatre Artists, Writers, Directors, Music Composers, Choreographer,

Make-up Artists, Designers, Technicians and Theatre Groups and entire theatre fraternity.

All the speakers come from various cultures, age groups and not convenient with online process have also accepted an invitation willingly to associate with us. A Few senior Theatre Experts are more than 80+ years old still they are willingly ready to do the session.

Padma Shri & Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winner Smt. Rita Ganguly, Shri Bansi Kaul, Shri Manoj Joshi, Smt. Neelam Mansingh, Shri Satish Alekar, Shri Dadi Pudumjee and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Winner Smt. Dolly Ahluwalia, Shri, Prof. Ashok Bhagat, Shri Suresh Sharma (Director – National School of Drama), Shri Amod Bhatt, Smt. Anjana Puri, Shri Sanjay Upadhyay, Smt. Rohini Hattangady, Smt. Nadira Babbar, Smt. Himani Shivpuri have done their sessions.

Stalwart participants include Makarand Deshpande, Mahesh Dattani, K.K. Raina, Lillete

Dubey, Rakesh Bedi, Ananth Mahadevan, Raghubir Yadav, Lubna Salim, Darshan Jariwala,

Siddharth Randeria, Ila Arun, Aanjjan Srivastava, Alok Chatterjee, Salim Arif, Saif Hyder

Hasan, Asif Ali Beg, Tiku Talsania, Sachin Khedekar, Sandip Soparrkar, Vijay Kenkre, Jayati

Bhatia, Nina Kulkarni, Jayati Bhatia, Suchitra Pillai, Vipul Mehta, Jimit Trivedi, Rajoo Barot,

Ramesh Talwar, Chandrkant Kulkarni many other senior Theatre experts.

Currently, Global Theatre Experts have been added to Coconut Theatre’s repertoire, seeing Writer-Director David Woods from Australia (22nd June), International Production Designer Neil Patel (Production Designer of Mughal-E-Azam The Musical), Megan Furniss – Playwright from South Africa (24th June), Actor-Director Glenn Hayden, also from Australia (25th June), Writer-Director Ana Cândida Carneiro from the USA (27th June), Three Times Tony Award Winner Scott Pask from USA (28th June) and World Renowned Writer-Director Jeff Baron from the USA (30th June).

Post sessions with International Speakers and line-up with Indian Theatre Experts is also

Scheduled which includes Theatre legends Mr.M.S.Sathyu and Mr.Prasanna, Theatre and

Bollywood Actress Sonali Kulkarni, Music Director Kuldeep Singh, Saumya Joshi, Eminent

Writer Ranjit Kapoor, Sumeet Raghavan, Waman Kendre (Ex-Director – National School of

Drama), Parvez Akhtar and on-going. Indian Theatre Industry has minimal support from the audience, corporates and other bodies compare to Bollywood, Sports, Music and other Digital Entertainment Platforms but this rising IP with continuous efforts of Coconut Theatre which showcased a phenomenal results during this pandemic. We have been getting fabulous response from Indian and International Theatre Fraternity appreciating our concept “Chai-Wai & Rangmanch – 2020”.

“The objective is to connect entire Theatre Fraternity LOCALLY & GLOBALLY be on one platform,” Mr. Rashmin Majithia (Managing Director) and Mr. Keyur Sheth (CEO) of Coconut Theatre.

If you would like to watch daily live sessions or previous session kindly like and follow Coconut Theatre Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/CoconutTheatre/?epa=SEARCH_BOX