{"id":1994,"date":"2012-02-20T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2013-11-16T01:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:14:48","slug":"kalagora-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/02\/kalagora-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalagora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camden People&#8217;s Theatre<br \/>\n58-60 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PY<\/p>\n<p>Fri 9 March<br \/>\n7.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Tickets \u00a310 (\u00a38 concessions)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cptheatre.co.uk\/event_details.php?sectionid=theatre&amp;eventid=474&amp;searchid=current\">Book online at CPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PART OF SPRINT FESTIVAL<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\u201can extraordinary odyssey\u201d \u2013 Julian Sands, BBC Radio 4<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;a thoroughly original, ingenious one-man production&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Broadway Baby<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;A surreal one-man show [&#8230;] like a mash-up of Allen Ginsberg and Salvador Dali\u201d<br \/>\n\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Three Weeks<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From the street surrealism of Mumbai, \u2018city of motion\u2019, to London\u2019s East End via Manhattan on Millennium night. Kalagora, the global wanderer, collides with a midget tobacconist, paranoid immigration officers and cross-dressing hedonists, observing the uncanny and grotesque at the start of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve overstayed our welcome. We\u2019re illegal. We\u2019ve worked s**t jobs, invented social security numbers, scammed Homeland Security mercilessly.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fresh from an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe, <em>Kalagora<\/em> is an explosive coming-of-age journey across three continents, splicing theatre, poetry, and video. Written and performed by Siddhartha Bose and featuring music by Bollywood composer Pankaj Awasthi, <em>Kalagora <\/em>exposes the shock of the megacity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kalagora<\/em> is directed by <strong>Russell Bender<\/strong> (Ecole Jacques Lecoq, Bristol Old Vic, National Theatre) and produced by <strong>Tom Chivers<\/strong> of Penned in the Margins, an independent live literature company whose work spans poetry, theatre, spoken word and publishing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalagora.com\">www.kalagora.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26287033?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camden People&#8217;s Theatre 58-60 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PY Fri 9 March 7.30pm Tickets \u00a310 (\u00a38 concessions) Book online at CPT PART OF SPRINT FESTIVAL \u201can extraordinary odyssey\u201d \u2013 Julian Sands, BBC Radio 4 &#8220;a thoroughly original, ingenious one-man production&#8221; \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Broadway Baby &#8220;A surreal one-man show [&#8230;] like a mash-up of Allen Ginsberg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}