Five Point National!

That academic wretchedness of IIT, escaping the real world through the sweet taste of social taboos, and the cliched yet truly comforting sensation of friendship and love. Sound familiar? You read it by the neck-breaking writing of Chetan Bhagat, possibly saw the stage production in Chennai, couple of years ago. Well, it’s back and it’s on for three months, going national!
Five Point Someone by Evam, presenting an all Bangalorian cast. With a variety of characters to choose from, the auditions will kickstart the production on 15th and 16th of November at what they call:
Bangalore615/14, 3rd cross Raghavendra Colony, Behind IIM, Billekahalli, B’lore – 76
Try the twelve hour drill on day one from 10 AM to 10 PM, or just show your stuff on day two between 10 AM and 4 PM.
Seven cities in three months, Five Point Someone. There’s some math, I’ll never figure out.
But it’s really quite simple. 9686467771, 09840222363 and teamevam@gmail.com will tell you how.

Bhavya- TeamEvam!

Airtel theatricals so far…

Just a quick update on what’s up-

It’s 5 down, 10 to go!

5 colleges have been through the workshop, given the whole theatre gyaan, energized and are ready to go!

Colleges done so far:

1. Ethiraj

2. Womens Christian College, WCC

3. SRM

4. Loyola College

5. SRM Eashwari

And NIFT and Sastra (Tanjor. Yes, the first out of Chennai college) are going through it over the weekend.

 

For details, check out:

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The Evam Wedding!

For months, there have been rumours, murmurs, discussions and truck loads of gossip. They all say, “Pavi is getting married to Navin!” (in the interest of general readers, Pavi alias Pavithra Ramaswamy is one of evam’s oldest employees. And no, by ‘old’, we mean experience old, not age old )

Brief history – Navin and Pavi met at the first CUT workshop. Eyes met, hearts swapped, the whole nine yards, you get the picture right? So anyway- 4 years or so later, they are getting MARRIED!

So it began with some 8 different functions in 3 different cities. And yes, that’s why evam has been in hiding for a while. We’ve been busy with the wedding

So evam was basically designated two very important jobs.

A) The mehendi dance and

B) The conduct of the wedding!

So here’s the deal. The mehendi function is on Wednesday and on Monday, we decide to dance. Chaos and confusion, initially! Lots of it! We gathered around fifteen people to dance and organizing it wasn’t too hard after all, owing to star dancers in team like Aparna, Bhavya, Megha and the legend-wait for it-ary “LP!”. We choreographed about ten songs and D-Day was not too far away! The music began and so did the jitters! We had a really cool storyline planned out for the dance and the whole event was a HUGE hit!

The next function, the wedding was on! The bride decided that she was the “DUDE” of the wedding, with extremely comprehensive department allotments and all that jazz. Everything was super organized and absolutely brilliant.So yeah, the thaali was tied (iyengar and mallu style) and everyone was happy

Here’s to Pavi and Navin, we wish you guys a lifetime of happiness and to Evam, for spreading more and more happiness like we always do!

Cheers

Harish Ramaswamy, Team Evam

Diwali Party!

Amidst visiting relatives, gulping down sweets, bursting crackers and getting drowned in boring, pointless yet impossible-to-tear-away-from television, we took some time off to visit the cancer institute for Diwali!

In April our Project HAPPY took over the children’s play room of the Cancer Institute’s new Pediatric Ward in Adyar.

Diwali we went, hung out with the kids, burst crackers, shared a few laughs.. Shared the spirit of the festival of light.

Here are some of the ‘happy!’ snaps

Cheers Rohit Lakshman – Team Evam

The new online strategy :P

evam beach day!!

Evam Refresh.

EVAM’S Earnest Idiot for Art Couple Hyssteria Hamlet BEACH DAY
or, for short - Evam’s E.I.A.C.H.H Beach Day (pronounced EACH BEACH DAY)

Evam mave (turn evam on its head!)

Ewham day

E-day

evam BLAZE- Fun in the surf and sun

That’s few of the hundred names we thought we would call the 22nd of August! We never fixed on anything though

Brief background- we though we’d take a break,  break out of the comforts of daily routine, the tranquility of the familiar and other such things!

And it turned out to be one of the best stress-busters we’ve had in a long time!!

Check out the snaps

All hail beach houses!!

I dared to dream!

1 hour long episode of I dared to dream featuring Evam

The episode is split into 13 parts. Here’s the episode promo!

Here are the episodes links!

Part-1 (5:59)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HwJ0vgglS0

Part-2 (2:56)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDUADB0Rdq0

Part-3 (3:04)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3w9wobcO9k

Part-4 (2:57)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdwfT0TshWM

Part-5 (2:57)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6sFSHgDuEM

Part-6 (4:34)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7cJih6bhHA

Part-7 (4:22)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuJNvh7daig

Part-8 (4:22)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfFT2FF-tME

Part-9 (4:27)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ATPZbxSJJI

Part-10 (5:52)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADW9L1ClRU

Part-11 (6:00)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhetB6Bxri0

Part-12 (5:58)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuErZ8FihiA

Part-13 (3:08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wp5yFLBbKk

MPTF ‘09!

Metro Plus theatre fest!

It’s playtime, folks… MPTF ’09!

It’s that time of year again!

Six plays by some of the best theatre groups you’ll ever see!

Don’t miss Naseerudin Shah, Kalki Koechlin and a bunch of other well known faces, on stage!

Most are acclaimed productions and one premieres at the fest. The plays are in English, Korean and gibberish, and they celebrate everything that theatre stands for.

Here’s what’s on offer

ANTIGONE — August 7. Catch Naseeruddin Shah playing cruel King Creon and Ratna Pathak Shah play his niece Antigone in this production from Motley, Mumbai.

CHICAGO — August 8. Chennai’s Stagefright Productions premieres its adaptation of the popular 1975 musical — it’s dark and sexy, has a huge cast, and promises plenty of entertainment.

HAMLET – THE CLOWN PRINCE — August 9. Shakespeare understood, interpreted and adapted by clowns? Watch this award-winning play directed by Rajat Kapur and performed by Cinematograph, Mumbai. A Hamlet like you’ve never seen before.

CITIZEN JOSH — August 14. How do you resume a graduation thesis you abandoned decades ago? Make it a monologue on democracy, with a rather comic twist. This has been written and performed by Josh Kornbluth from the USA, supported by the U.S. Consulate General Chennai. A political, comic drama you cannot afford to miss!

THE SKELETON WOMAN — August 15. Kalki Koechlin, ‘Chanda’ from “Dev D”, co-wrote a play with Prashant Prakash, and it went on to win the MetroPlus Playwright Award 09. A tale of a fisherman’s compassion for a skeleton woman that brings her back to life. Catch their haunting story.

MEDEA AND ITS DOUBLE — August 16. Members of the Seoul Factory for the Performing Arts adapt this Greek classic, and perform it using traditional music, movements and martial arts. The sets are spectacular too. And, language need not be a deterrent; there will be surtitles in English. Brought to Chennai with the support of InKo Centre, in association with The Korea Foundation and the Korea Arts Management Service.

The festival grows bigger this year with affiliated performances, exciting food stalls and other surprises at the venue.

Tickets are available online at www.thehindu.com/theatrefest.

Also available at Landmark (Nungambakkam), India Garage (184, Anna Salai, Opp. British Council) and at the venue.

For fest help, call 98402-22363/98406-12333.

Presenting Sponsor: Bose Associate

Sponsors: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., LG electronics India Pvt. Ltd., Nippon Paint and Club Mahindra.

Cultural Partner: The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)

Hospitality Partner: The Park, Chennai Radio Partner:

Chennai Live 104.8FM

Event Manager: evam

Cut Chennai, edition 5!

As the cleverly structured title subtles suggests, the 5th edition of CUT Chennai happened over last week

We had 20 more people going through the CUT experience. 20 more people energised, pumped up and rearing to go!

Some snaps from the inside attached. Check them out.