Prasanna | |
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Born | 10 February 1951 India |
Occupation | Theatre director |
Years active | 1970 - present |
Prasanna (born 1951), is an Indian theatre director and playwright from Karnataka. He is one of the pioneers of modern Kannada theatre.[1] He graduated from the National School of Drama (NSD). He founded Samudaya and gave a creative direction to Kannada theatre in the 1970's with other activists. Prasanna lives in Heggodu in Karnataka. He is known for his organisational skills and new ideas and innovations in theatre.[2] He is a Sangeet Natak Akademi Awardee. He has directed plays for National School of Drama (Repertory Company, NSD), Ninasam, Rangamandal-Bhopal, Rangayana and worked with many theatre organizations of India.[3]
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Girish Karnad's Tughlaq, Gandhi, Life of Galileo, Thai (Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children), Acharya Tartuf, Lal Ghas Per Neele Ghode (traslation -Uday Prakash), Ek Lok Katha, Shakuntalam (Abhijñānaśākuntalam), Fujiyama, Dangeya Munchina Dinagalu, Kadadida Neeru, Uttar Ram Charit, Cupid's Broken Arrow,[4] William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Seema Paar(Play on Bharatendu Harishchandra)[5] etc.
He is also a Kannada playwright, Novelist, and poet. Some of his dramas are:Uli,Seema Paar,Dangeya Munchina Dinagalu, Ondu Lokada Kathe,Haddu Meerida Haadi,Mahihmapura,Jangamada Badaku.
1. National theatre needs to be redined: Prasanna
2. Essay Saffron curtain ;Tehelka.com
3. If people play their part by Priya Kanungo
4. Theatre At The Grass Roots: K.V. Subbanna In Dialogue With Prasanna And Geeti Sen
5. Let the colours be ;The Hindu
6. Centre concedes Prasanna's demand ;The Hindu