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‘Motley Festival 2009’ celebrates 30 years of Naseer`s theatre group.

Spicezee Bureau

Mumbai: Naseeruddin Shah and Benjamin Gilani formed Motley Theatre Group thirty years ago. To celebrate the completion of its three successful decades, Motley has come up with a fortnight of special presentations in the form of ‘Motley Festival 2009’. Talking about his brainchild, the veteran actor spoke to a news daily recently, “When Motley began, we didn’t think beyond that first production. In a quick fade-out, thirty years and almost that many productions have gone by.” Motley has produced several short and full-length English plays and has for the last eight years been performing in Hindustani as well. From being an itinerant troupe of two, Motley now has a pretty large membership that includes illustrious names like Tom Alter, Ratna Pathak, Kenny Desai and Akash Khurana. The group has regularly toured the country and has also taken their presentations offshore. Since its conception in 1979, Motley’s versatility and diversity of topics remains its unique attraction to date. With ‘story-telling’ theatre, Motley has found its niche and is serving the purposes of both entertainment as well as education. The program is as following: September 7 –The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (English) - 6:30pm – NCPA September 8 – Katha Collage I (Hindustani) - 6:30pm – NCPA September 9 – Ismat Apa Ke Naam II (Hindustani) - 6:30pm – NCPA September 10 – Dastangoi (Urdu) - 6:30pm – NCPA September 11 – All Thieves (English/Hindi) - 6:30pm – NCPA September 12 - Ismat Apa Ke Naam I - 6:30pm – NCPA September 13 – Waiting For Godot (English) - 6:30pm – NCPA September 14 -The Caine Mutiny Court Martial(English)– 8pm – BN Vaidya Hall, Dadar September 15 - Katha Collage I (Hindustani) – 8pm – BN Vaidya Hall, Dadar September 16 - Ismat Apa Ke Naam II (Hindustani) – 8pm – BN Vaidya Hall, Dadar September 17 - All Thieves (English/Hindi) – 8pm – BN Vaidya Hall, Dadar September 18 - Ismat Apa Ke Naam II (Hindustani) – 8pm – BN Vaidya Hall, Dadar September 19 - Waiting For Godot (English) – 8pm – BN Vaidya Hall, Dadar