Ratan Thakore Grant
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Ratan Thakore Grant is a theatre personality based in Bangalore
. From theatre, television and film personality, Ratan has played the protagonist in several theatre productions for over two decades. Recent productions include "Children of a Lesser God", "Come and See My City from Here", "Divorce Me, Darling!
", "Silly Cow" and "The Rainmaker". Film credits include the award winning film "Jungle Boy
" (1998), "Outhouse" (1999) - an official Indian entry to Cannes, "Minus 1"(2003) and the TV series "Professor Vasan and South Parade". Ratan Thakore Grant has devoted much of his life to the advancement and propagation of theatre.
Grant is also the founder of the multilingual theatre group MiSF!T (My Interest Stays Firmly In Theatre), a name he so coined as he always felt like a misfit during his growing years because of being 'dyslexic and painfully shy'. His believes that anyone can act with a proper guidance, and to implement, and test this belief, he started conducting acting workshops for the stage and screen since 2001, as well as personality enhancement and training programmes for corporates and professional colleges, using theatre as a base. Grant has also been involved with choreography and dance instruction for close to 25 years now. His assignments have included fashion shows, plays, and musicals.
MiSF!T Theatre Factory (MTF) was a concept conceived by Grant to use uses theatre as a foundation to analyze, explore and inculcate numerous other components in performing arts – dance, music and technology. Activities core to MTF encompass developing plays, writing original play scripts, interpreting existing play scripts and transforming scripts to actual plays. In doing so, MTF promotes free and open discussions on the process of play productions, theatre styles and the role and use of various types of technologies. "The end objective is to simply make theatre fun, interactive and enjoyable for both the actors and the audience, and bring in a special energy to the spirit of theatre in Bangalore", says Grant.
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
. From theatre, television and film personality, Ratan has played the protagonist in several theatre productions for over two decades. Recent productions include "Children of a Lesser God", "Come and See My City from Here", "Divorce Me, Darling!
Divorce Me, Darling!
Divorce Me, Darling is a musical written by Sandy Wilson. Set ten years after the events depicted in Wilson's much better known The Boy Friend, it is a pastiche of 1930s musicals rather than the "Roaring Twenties" shows that inspired the earlier show.-Productions:Divorce Me, Darling ran for 91...
", "Silly Cow" and "The Rainmaker". Film credits include the award winning film "Jungle Boy
Jungle Boy (1998 film)
Jungle Boy is a family adventure film produced by Damian Lee, who co-wrote the film with John Lawson, and directed by Allan Goldstein.-Plot summary:...
" (1998), "Outhouse" (1999) - an official Indian entry to Cannes, "Minus 1"(2003) and the TV series "Professor Vasan and South Parade". Ratan Thakore Grant has devoted much of his life to the advancement and propagation of theatre.
Grant is also the founder of the multilingual theatre group MiSF!T (My Interest Stays Firmly In Theatre), a name he so coined as he always felt like a misfit during his growing years because of being 'dyslexic and painfully shy'. His believes that anyone can act with a proper guidance, and to implement, and test this belief, he started conducting acting workshops for the stage and screen since 2001, as well as personality enhancement and training programmes for corporates and professional colleges, using theatre as a base. Grant has also been involved with choreography and dance instruction for close to 25 years now. His assignments have included fashion shows, plays, and musicals.
MiSF!T Theatre Factory (MTF) was a concept conceived by Grant to use uses theatre as a foundation to analyze, explore and inculcate numerous other components in performing arts – dance, music and technology. Activities core to MTF encompass developing plays, writing original play scripts, interpreting existing play scripts and transforming scripts to actual plays. In doing so, MTF promotes free and open discussions on the process of play productions, theatre styles and the role and use of various types of technologies. "The end objective is to simply make theatre fun, interactive and enjoyable for both the actors and the audience, and bring in a special energy to the spirit of theatre in Bangalore", says Grant.
Plays
- Pancake Helen – Oct 2009
- An Evening of Theatre - June 2008
- Scripted: Tiraa, Pinjra – March 2006
- Words, Laya, Chakravyuh – “I” – June 2005
- Audience on the Mat – May 2004
- The Imaginary Invalid – Oct 2002
- Children of a Lesser GodChildren of a Lesser GodChildren of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff. An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award-winning stage play of the same name, the film stars William Hurt and Marlee Matlin as two employees at a school for the deaf:...
– Sep, 2001 - Come See My City – Nov 1998
- Divorce Me, Darling! – Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1997
- Silly Cow – Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1997
- The RainmakerThe Rainmaker (play)The Rainmaker is a play written by N. Richard Nash in the early 1950s. The play opened on October 28, 1954 at the Cort Theatre in New York and ran for 125 performances. It was directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by Ethel Linder Reiner....
- Jan 1991, Repeated in 1998 - The HollowThe HollowThe Hollow is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1946 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence...
– Sep, 1989 - A Map of the WorldA Map of the WorldA Map of the World is a novel by Jane Hamilton. It was the Oprah's Book Club selection for December 1999. It was made into a movie released in 1999 starring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Chloë Sevigny, Louise Fletcher and Marc Donato with a soundtrack by Pat Metheny.- Plot...
– May, 1989 - The Physicist – Jan, 1989
- Close Of A Play – Decccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1988
- Coralie Lansdowne Says No – Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, Sep, 1988
- Suddenly at Home – Feb, 1987
- All My SonsAll My SonsAll My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. The play was twice adapted for film; in 1948, and again in 1987.The play opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1947 and ran for 328 performances...
– Jan, 1986 - An Inspector CallsAn Inspector CallsAn Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK. It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre...
– Dec, 1983 - Moliere’s – The Hypochondriac (For National Public SchoolNational Public School, IndiranagarNational Public School, Indiranagar, is a private school located in Indiranagar, Bangalore .It is a sister institution of National Public School Rajajinagar. It was started in 1982 by Dr. K.P. Gopalakrishna, chairman, National Educational Trust. In January 2007, the school celebrated its 25th...
, Indiranagar, Bangalore) - Spider’s Web by Agatha Christie (For St. Joseph’s CollegeSt. Joseph's College, BangaloreSt. Joseph's College , Bangalore is one of the oldest colleges in the State of Karnataka with a history of more than 125 years behind it. It imparts graduate, post-graduate and research education while searching, renewing and expanding itself, attempting to be ever relevant to the changing...
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