THEATRE / MUSIC / POETRY : Celebrating Gopal Sharman at Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg > 6:30pm on 9th July 2016

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Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 09/07/2016 18:30 09/07/2016 21:00 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE / MUSIC / POETRY : Celebrating Gopal Sharman Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/07/theatre-music-poetry-celebrating-gopal.html Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001 
Landmark : Next to RML Hospital Emergency Gate 5
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Patel Chowk(Yellow Line)Exit Gate - 3'
Parking : Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital public parking or Inside Akshara Theatre

Event Description : Akshara Theatre presents Celebrating Gopal Sharman in Theatre, Music, Poetry & Sweet Memory. 

Shri Gopal Sharman, towering creative personality, poet, playwright, director, musician, film-maker, carpenter, founder and Artistic Director of the Akshara Theatre passed away on June 16 at the age of 81.

Akshara Theatre presents a celebration of the multi-faceted artistic genius that was Gopal Sharman -- who worked equally proficiently and beautifully as a poet, a playwright, a musician, a film-maker, a designer, a carpenter and electrician -- practicing the same degree of excellence and attention to detail and deriving an equal joy in each of these fields. 

Jalabala Vaidya, Sunit Tandon and the Akshara Repertory will perform short excerpts from The Ramayana, Let’s Laugh Again, and a poem and a song or two.

Sharing their memories with us are Ram Jethmalani, Rajiv and Geeta Chandran, Papa CJ, Sudhamahi Regunathan, Sir Rob Young, Anil Diwan and others.

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Gopal Sharman's most famous play was his contemporary interpretation of the Ramayana, performed over several thousand performances in India as well as on Broadway, the West End, United Nations Headquarters, the Smithsonian Institution and National Arts Centres from Fiji to Canada.
Gopal Sharman’s plays include Full Circle,  The Ramayana, India Alive, the Let’s Laugh… series of political satires,Karma, the Bhagavad Gita, Hit and Run, Anekanta, I Galileo Galilei...
He produced and co-anchored the popular 80’s television series India Alive, and directed path-breaking documentaries like The Kashmir Story, Music Alive, The Sufi Way, My Life Is My Song.
Gopal Sharman has authored several books, including Filigree In Sound: Form and Content in Indian Music, The Ramayana: the book of the play, Karma/Hit And Run, etc. He has also written extensively on the arts for The Times(London), The Washington Post, Hindustan Times etc. 
He is survived by his wife and artistic soulmate and partner, actress Jalabala Vaidya, who starred in all his plays and films and performed The Ramayana as a solo tour-de-force in over 2000 performances as well as their daughter Anasuya, grandchildren Nisa, Dhruv and Yashna and son-in-law Ajay Shetty.   
His enduring legacy is not just his extensive body of work – plays, films, music compositions and his young students and actors, but the exquisite Akshara Theatre which he built with his own hands, and which has become the forum for not just Sharman’s works but a vast variety of talented young artists.
Please join us for refreshments afterwards.

The Akshara Family

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