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Ashish Beesoondial

 

 

With an experience to the viewer. Convey ideas and emotions so that it does not comes free from a representation. Ashish is Beesoondial director. We sketch his portrait in the light of its route, through the prism of his passion.He will be remembered Porgy Bess ek. The apparent discretion Ashish Beesoondial is the mark of those of the stuff. It thirties who has emerged through the staging of a piece of the curtain rises on a nonconformist character. This is evident in the background but also in the form when the man evokes the scene corresponding to its aspirations.With an experience to the public. Convey ideas so that the viewer does not comes out of theater as he returned before a room. At least have instilled in him the seeds of reflection or offering him a moment rich in emotions. "I do not like the idea of ​​sitting in a room and feel like in a box when I attended a performance. It's like watching a movie passively: it does not feel in action. I prefer an intimate theater with proximity to the viewer. "A scene that does not leave unmoved. Not unmoved.

Recount.
Break with traditionalism scenes overloaded with frills and address the counting of the new theater. He focused on the actor and the emotions to the public, invited to go beyond the role of passive observer. Ashish would push him in the absolute, upset the with stories served by comedians framed by her care director of actors. A lengthy process in which this passionate boards brings the actor to own emotions, to adopt facial expressions of a character, without forgetting. Education acquired in a dramatic gestation began in India and completed in England.
Bombay 1996. St Xavier's College, the former Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) is written in English license. After his master's degree at the University of Bombay, Ashish considering a career in the teaching profession in order to walk in the footsteps of his father, but find its way in a cosmopolitan student environment. Eunice de Souza, a lecturer, the incentive to better embrace the language of Shakespeare through the theater. "I thought being able to speak English properly; I learned intonations and inflections good voice through diligent practice of the boards. "A pronounced pronunciation to respect the language.

Emotions.
The theater will take over the school. The young man booked spreads its wings to fly to heights undreamed every adrenaline rush provided by the scene. It tames the lights of this magical space, as an actor in the first place. Ashish Beesoondial understand that the actor communicates his emotions to the public. To do this, knowing yourself is essential to externalize emotions, blend into the character's skin. An implicit relationship is then established between the protagonist and the viewer. Tacit resonance.
The theater passion drives the neophyte to pursue advanced studies: a Masters in Theatre Making obtained from the University of Leeds in England. With a cheerful serenity Beesoondial explains the role of the director is not limited to modulate a voice on a text or to orchestrate the movements of a body in a setting. It is widely shaping a story about a accurate in staging.
It is also a textual analysis process which aims to control the relationship from one character to another and conceptualization of all to achieve a free and personal interpretation of the text, subsequent roles. A choice if it is a bias that is the sole responsibility director.

Experimentation.
Returned home, Ashish Beesoondial up Mahadevbhai, part of the Indian playwright Ramu Ramanathanan, met during his studies. Follow The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka. Then intervene a decisive step in this dramatic journey: a passage at the Globe Theatre in London gives it an approach to theater, open to experimentation and carried on teaching.
Without doubt this is no coincidence that Ashish Beesoondial is since 2007 lecturer at the Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE), where he is responsible for the Performing Arts Unit. Which produces a piece per year. Also mounted A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, parts of excerpts from Tenessee Williams, All My Sons (Arthur Miller) and lately ek Porgy Bess, a Mauritian adaptation of the musical Gershwin. Production directed by Ashish Beesoondial, arrested by homelessness this project, which shifts the scene to the public.
Transmission of ideas and emotions that the scenes are always playing in the viewer's head, even after the curtain falls. The end of the show.

 

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