"Oh! Calcutta! Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in the West End in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314. Revivals enjoyed even longer runs, including a Broadway revival that ran for 5,959 performances, making the show the longest-running revue in Broadway history at the time. As of 2018, its revival was still the longest-running revue in Broadway history, the second longest-running revival, after ""Chicago"", and the eighth longest-running"
"of ""Oh! Calcutta!"" in 1969 was another important victory in that campaign. Tynan was fiercely against censorship and was determined to break taboos that he considered arbitrary. Tynan's left-wing politics and lifestyle made him something of a poster boy for 1960s radical chic and champagne socialism in London. He suffered a serious personal defeat in the National's internal battles over his support for the Rolf Hochhuth play ""Soldiers"", a controversial work highly critical of Winston Churchill, whose National Theatre production was eventually cancelled. An erotic revue which Tynan co-ordinated and partially wrote, called ""Oh! Calcutta!"", debuted in 1969 and became"
"“no verticals”, the rubbish was to be “all scattered and lying.” Tynan, who was the Literary Manager at the National Theatre in London and was devising ""Oh! Calcutta!"", had asked Beckett "" … to write a brief skit for an erotic review, and Beckett agreed when he heard that Edna O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, Leonard Melfi, John Lennon and Tynan himself were planning to contribute. All the contributions were to be listed anonymously on the programme so that none of the contributors would be identified with his writing.” Beckett sent the text of the play on a postcard to Tynan. At"
"Jacques Levy, has done his best with the weak material at hand ... the nude scenes, while derivative, are attractive enough. The best effects — including the rather sweet grope-in immediately after the intermission — have been taken from Robert Joffrey's ballet 'Astarte', and the show uses the same projected media designers ... In sum, 'Oh! Calcutta!' is likely to disappoint different people in different ways, but disappointment is the order of the night."" Irving Wardle, writing in ""The Times"" in 1970, said: ""I have seen better revues than ""Oh! Calcutta!"" but none based on ideas that strike me as"
"has also been used for theatre, and has had two periods of theatrical glory, with musicals such as ""Catch My Soul"" (1969). Under administrator George Hoskins, the first phase also featured experimental theatre productions, such as the Living Theatre production of ""1776"" and other plays directed by Peter Brook. The once controversial nude revue ""Oh! Calcutta!"" opened in July 1970, and started a run of nearly four thousand performances in London, and the anarchic ""Evening of British Rubbish"" with professor Bruce Lacey and the Alberts had one performance in 1967. The Greater London Council passed the building to the Camden"
"Edison Theatre The Edison Theatre was a Broadway theatre located in the Hotel Edison at 240 West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Originally opening in 1931 as the hotel's ballroom, it became the Arena Theatre on May 31, 1950, with a revival of George Kelly's ""The Show Off"". The following year it was returned to the hotel's ballroom and remained as such until the early 1970s, when it was re-converted to a theatre. Its most notable production was ""Oh! Calcutta!"", which opened on September 24, 1976, and ran for 13 years, with a total of 5,959 performances. Other shows staged"
"chairwoman of the London branch of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. In this role, she attempted to launch a number of prosecutions against productions and writers that offended her sense of taste, including the producers of the theatrical revue ""Oh! Calcutta!"" and actor John Bird, the author of the play ""Council of Love"", whom she accused of blasphemy. Lady Birdwood became involved in campaigns against trade unions, setting up the Citizens Mutual Protection Society in the early 1970s, which launched a failed attempt to run a private postal service. She took a leading role in several far-right pressure groups,"
"1971 the Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the prohibition. In 1970, Keating tried to block a closed-circuit showing of the musical ""Oh! Calcutta!"" in Cincinnati, saying that ""it appeals to a prurient interest in sex."" During 1972, a Keating legal action kept a sex film theater shut as a ""public nuisance"". He tried to prevent newsstands near his office from selling ""Playboy"" and ""Oui"" magazines. He denounced the Ramada Inn chain for offering adult programming on cable television to guests. Other local actions involving shutting stores and removing books from public libraries were attributed by civil liberties advocates to the"
"of Balakrishna Menon, as the assistant dance director, where he also designed costumes and sets. A decade later, he founded his own puppet theatre group, Calcutta Puppet Theatre, along with his wife, Devi, and a few like-minded artists. The group staged several shows, beginning with the ""Alladin"", followed by ""Ramayana"", ""Sita"", ""Gulabo aar Sitabo"" and ""Notun Jeebon"", totaling over 3,000 shows. He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2009, for his contributions to puppetry. Suresh Dutta Suresh Dutta is an Indian puppet"
"realized when too late to repent that it is not unconnected with<poem> ""On entre, on crie"" ""Et c’est la vie."" ""On crie, on sort,"" ""Et c‘est la mort."" </poem> If this fails to titillate I hand in my aprob."" It is evident from that last remark that Beckett meant his play to stand as an ironic comment on ""Oh! Calcutta!"" But someone tampered with the text, and added a stage direction to include naked people to the miscellaneous rubbish. When the book of ""Oh! Calcutta!"" was published by Grove Press, not only was this unauthorised addition added, but Beckett’s name"
"Calcutta Theatre The Calcutta Theatre or The New Playhouse, was an historic theatre in Calcutta (now named Kolkata) in India, founded in 1775. It was the second theatre in the city of Calcutta. The first theatre in Calcutta, The Playhouse, was a modest local at the Lal Bazar, founded in 1756. It was replaced by the Calcutta Theatre, which was founded in 1775. It was situated near the Northern section of Clive Street and to the north of Writers Buildings, and built funded by the subscriptions sharers of one hundred rupees each. David Garrick of London recommended a Bernard Massinck"
"his creativity. Jnanadanandini started assisting him with the performance of his plays, often encouraging other women of the household to participate. Thus came: ""Valmiki-Pratibha"", ""Kaalmrigaya"", ""Raja O Rani"", ""Mayar Khela"" and ""Bisarjan"". From Indira Devi's recollection we also learn that in spite of her high standing, Jnanadanandini did not socialize with the Calcutta glitterati of her time. That Calcutta society was not favourably disposed towards Jnanadanandini either is evident form an article in the October 1889 issue of the popular Bengali journal ""Bangabasi"", which slandered her for acting in the play ""Raja O Rani"". Ironically, the Tagore house at ""Birjitalao"""
"Poets Theater, New York City. The following year he directed two of the short plays in Jean-Claude van Itallie's ""America Hurrah"". In 1969, Levy directed the successful off-Broadway erotic revue ""Oh! Calcutta!"". During this period, Levy approached Roger McGuinn of The Byrds to collaborate on ""Gene Tryp"", a project inspired by Henrik Ibsen's ""Peer Gynt"". While development of the musical stalled (a revised iteration was eventually performed at Colgate University in 1993), one song, ""Chestnut Mare,"" became the single released from the album ""(Untitled)"" in 1970. Although it only peaked at #121 in the United States, the song reached #19"
"disputes this, saying that Samuel Beckett had recited it to her years before, and that Calder published a fair copy but not the original, which SB had written on the paper tablecloth of a café.” James Knowlson quotes Beckett describing this play in the context of ""Oh! Calcutta!"": ""My contribution to the Tynan circus is a forty second piece entitled BREATH … It is simply light coming up and going down on a stage littered with miscellaneous unidentifiable muck, sychronised with sound of breath, once in and out, the whole (ha!) begun and ended by the same tiny vagitus-rattle. I"
"based on the scandal, all of which became very popular and big money-makers; especially ""Mohanter Ei ki Kaj!"" became a huge hit on stage. Plays written as late as 1924 referred to the affair as if it was common public knowledge. Numerous Kalighat paintings and Battala woodwork prints—created in the decade after the scandal—depicted the ""immoral"" affair, the gruesome murder and the resultant trial. According to Chattopadhyay (author of ""Representing Calcutta: modernity, nationalism, and the colonial uncanny""), it was the popularity of the plays combined with ""the rhetoric of sin and morality"" that inspired Kalighat painters to present this ""tragedy"
"this terrible love’. Yet these poems reach even further, into the rent world, and the remarkable kinds of beauty to which poetry alone can allude"". It was published by V.Press. Calcutt is creator and editor of 'Eighty-Four', a poetry anthology on the subject of male suicide. Calcutt is also a professional dancer and choreographer. She studied classical ballet and jazz, and trained as a commercial dancer, before moving into a career in dance-theatre and movement direction. She has worked in the dance sector for over fifteen years. Calcutt has directed movement for Midland's Actor's Theatre, and Regional Voice Theatre, and"
"intensified and he started interviewing contemporary stalwarts of Bangla theatre, e.g., Utpal Dutt, Badal Sircar, Sombhu Mitra, among others, for further clarifications on their works. His assessment of Nandikar's 1969 production of ""Tin Poysar Pala"", and adaptation of Brecht's ""The Threepenny Opera"": ""When we have a production of ""The Three Penny Opera"" which simply goes in for wild fun, we regard it as a compromise, a betrayal. The production has no point when there is serious political violence in Calcutta. ... This is status quo theatre, which means nothing to a generation that thinks in political terms. Foucault's influence on"
"Village East), at 181 Second Avenue on the Lower East Side. Originally built in 1926 for Yiddish productions, the theater had its first brush with burlesque in 1962 when, as the Casino East, it hosted Ann Corio's nostalgic revue, ""This Was Burlesque"". Corio's show ran until 1965, then went on a prolonged national tour. The Casino East was renamed the Gayety and continued to operate as Manhattan's only burlesque house. Unlike Corio's show, however, the emphasis was not on comedy. In 1969 the theater, renamed the Eden, became an off-Broadway venue and presented the then-controversial musical ""Oh! Calcutta!"", which featured"
"his works of theatre criticism. He had written eleven works on theatre criticism: ""Kavishri Nanalalna Natako Ane Akbarshahni Rangbhumi Par Rajuat"" (1959), ""Natak Bhajavata"" (1962), ""Lyric"" (1962), ""Lyric Ane Lagarik"" (1965), ""Natyarang"" (1973), ""American Theatre"" (1974), ""Europe na Deshoni Natyashrishti"" (1974), ""Japannu Theatre"" (1975), ""Vak"" (1975), ""Ekanki: Kyare Kya Ane Keva Uprant Bija Natyavishayak Lekho"". His ""Bibliography of Stagable Plays in Indian Languages"" Part 1-2 (1964, 1965) is his work of theatre research which received him acclaim in the theatre of Europe. It has an extensive list of plays written and staged in India in the 19th and 20th century"
"Oh, Coward! Oh, Coward! is a musical revue in two acts devised by Roderick Cook and containing music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The revue consists of two men and one woman in formal dress, performing songs based on the following themes: England, family album, travel, theatre, love and women. There are also sketches, such as ""London Pastoral"" which tells of the joys of London in the spring, ""Family Album"" about relatives who ""were not excessively bright"", and a scene with excerpts from several of Coward's plays, such as ""Private Lives"". It ran Off-Broadway in 1972, in London in 1975"
"longer commercially viable, but in the 1960 experimental theatre made a mark through the works of Manoranjan Das, who pioneered a new theater movement with his brand of experimentalism. Bijay Mishra, Biswajit Das, Kartik Rath, Ramesh Prasad Panigrahi, Ratnakar Chaini, Prasanna Das, Pramod Kumar Tripathy, Sankar Tripathy, Ranjit Patnaik, Dr. Pradip Bhowmic, Hemendra Mahapatra, and Purna Chandra Mallick continued the tradition. Tripathy's contribution to the growth and development of the immensely popular and thought-provoking ""lok natakas"" is universally recognised and he is often called the Rousseau of lok natakas. Noted writer Ananta Charan Sukla's Odia translation of four classic Greek"
"of foreign films and mainstream revivals until 19 December 1969 when the theatre closed as a cinema for the last time and returned to live theatre use. The Royalty Theatre's only successes were a run of the hit ""Oh! Calcutta!"" and a hit production of ""Bubbling Brown Sugar"" in the late 1970s. It was also the venue for the first and last concerts on what turned out to be the final tour of the English folk-rock singer Sandy Denny with her band in November 1977, and the venue features on the 1998 posthumous release ""Gold Dust"" which was produced over"
"Peter Jaszi. On September 29, 1970, the cinema was raided by Massachusetts State Police for showing ""Oh! Calcutta!"" on video. Gitter, Jaszi, and Ted Uzzle, among others, were arrested, and spent the night in the Cambridge jail. The case would later be literally laughed out of court. When Gitter departed, the new owners were Molly and Ralph Hoagland (previously a co-founder of the CVS Corporation). From 1971 to 1978 the theater was managed and programmed by Larry Jackson, who later held positions with Miramax, Orion Pictures and the Samuel Goldwyn Company. The theater was purchased by Herbert Meadow and managed"
"Ki Pahli Kiran Tak"", about female sexuality, man-woman relationships, gender equality, has been staged by numerous theatre directors. National School of Drama Repertory Company presented it for the first time in 1974. Amol Palekar who had already directed his stage version in 1972, later was adapted it into Marathi film ""Anahat"" (2003). ""Chhote Saiyad bade Saiyad"" (Junior Saiyad and Senior Saiyad) (1978) was directed by B. V. Karanth in 1980, and ""Qaid-e-hayat"" (Imprisonment of Life) (1983) was directed by Ram Gopal Bajaj in 1989 at the National School of Drama. Surendra Verma Surendra Verma (born 7 September 1941) is a"
"turned it into the New China Bazar. Calcutta Theatre The Calcutta Theatre or The New Playhouse, was an historic theatre in Calcutta (now named Kolkata) in India, founded in 1775. It was the second theatre in the city of Calcutta. The first theatre in Calcutta, The Playhouse, was a modest local at the Lal Bazar, founded in 1756. It was replaced by the Calcutta Theatre, which was founded in 1775. It was situated near the Northern section of Clive Street and to the north of Writers Buildings, and built funded by the subscriptions sharers of one hundred rupees each. David"
"Ochira Velukkutty Ochira Velukutty (1905–1954) was an Indian dramatist in the early days of Malayalam theatre. The Malayalam theatre began as an offshoot of Tamil theatre. In South Kerala, the monotony of the ""sangeetha natakam"" (musical play) was broken in 1930 by the play ""Karuna"", an adaptation of Kumaran Asan's famous poetic piece. The adaptation was done by Brahmavrathan and the actors Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar and Ochira Velukutty. This adaptation constituted a radical breakthrough in the 'sangeetha nataka' tradition and its implications were far reaching. It became part of the social reformist movement being led by the precepts of Sree"
"Vijay Tendulkar Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (6 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays ""Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe"" (1967), ""Ghāshirām Kotwāl"" (1972), and ""Sakhārām Binder"" (1972). Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He has provided guidance to students studying ""play writing"" in US universities. For over five decades Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theatre personality in Mahārāshtra. Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar"
"not be restricted to Calcutta, but should venture beyond Calcutta to such places as Krishnanagore, Berhampore, Jessore and other such areas where the issues addressed in the play would be more relevant. However, the staging of ""Nil Darpan"" with its blatant demonization of the white-skinned indigo planters, earned the displeasure of the ""Englishman"" which, in its 20 December 1872 issue condemned the play for having had damaging effects on the dignity and prestige of the British government and ordered that the performance of the play be immediately stopped. It wrote: On the other hand, the new public theatre in Calcutta"
"the project's Internet Movie Database page. The Spanish-language premiere production opened on October 9, 1977 at Teatro Principe in Madrid, Spain, directed by Juan Jose Alonso Millan, who also translated the show. ""Note: the musical revue was in the form of sketches. These are taken from the 1971 production shown on pay-per-view. Lyrics and music by Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele and Stanley Walden (unless otherwise noted)."" The actors dance and remove their robes to the opening song (""Taking Off the Robe"" (Oh! Calcutta!)). A boy and a girl who just met are in their own playland, with the boy constantly"
"detailed depictions of masturbation using various props including a piece of liver which Portnoy's mother later serves for dinner. Roth had begun work on ""Portnoy's Complaint"" in 1967, before publication of his novel ""When She Was Good"" that year. The piece had its genesis in a satirical monologue Roth had written to accompany a slide show proposed for inclusion in the risqué revue ""Oh! Calcutta!"" that would focus on the sexual organs of the rich and famous. While the slide show would never come to fruition, Roth found part of the accompanying monologue about masturbation salvageable. Roth re-fashioned the material"
"(Story, Screenplay & Dialogues) 1. Shree Jagannatha (1950) 2. Maa (1958) 3. Nua Bou (1962) 4. Amada Bata (1964) 5. Abhinetri (1965) 6. Matira Manisha (1967) 7. Kie Kahara (1968) 8. Bandhan (1969) 9. Adina Megha (1970) 10. Dharitri (1973) 11. Ramayana (1980) 12. School Master (1985) 13. Badhu Nirupama (1985) Gopal Chhotray Gopal Chhotray (1916–2003) was born in Puranagarh village of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha, India. He is considered to be one of the chief architects of modern Oriya theatre. He brought in significant changes in the morphology of Oriya plays, both in theme and structure. He rescued them"
"monitor the magazine and its subscriptions. But Chilakamarti did not like the magazine to be a subsidised paper. He thought that running the magazine according to the rules of British is equivalent to the selling of one's own soul. Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham (26 September 1867 – 17 June 1946) was an Indian playwright, novelist and author of short stories, who wrote in the Telugu language. He was a romantic and a social reformer in the tradition founded by Veeresalingam. His best-known plays are probably ""Gayopakhyanam"" (1909) and ""Ganapati"" (1920). Narasimham was visually impaired since his youth, and"
"In His Own Write"", co-adapted by Victor Spinetti and Adrienne Kennedy. After negotiations between Lennon, Spinetti and the artistic director of the National Theatre, Sir Laurence Olivier, the play opened at The Old Vic in 1968. Lennon and Ono attended the opening night performance, their second public appearance together. In 1969, Lennon wrote ""Four in Hand"", a skit based on his teenage experiences of group masturbation, for Kenneth Tynan's play ""Oh! Calcutta!"". After Lennon's death, further works were published, including ""Skywriting by Word of Mouth"" (1986), ""Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes: A Personal Sketchbook"" (1992), with Lennon's illustrations of"