Quasar Thakore Padamsee's guest appearances

Quasar Thakore Padamsee

Audiogyan

Jaipur Bytes

Storytalking with Lakshya

Midlifers with Salone Mehta | Mirchi

The HrishiKay Sessions

Manu S. Pillai

Colson Whitehead

Michael Puett

Elizabeth Gilbert

Pico Iyer

Noam Chomsky

Frank Dikötter

Yann Martel

Mark Haddon

Jonathan Safran Foer

Howard Jacobson

Lilly Singh

Alex Ross

Rupert Everett

Bernardine Evaristo

OwlTail

Feisal Alkazi

Amal Allana

Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi-Padamsee Family Memoir is a heartfelt homage to one of the greatest alliances in the world of theatre and art in post-Independence India: the Alkazi-Padamsees. Penned by noted director Feisal Alkazi, son of the late theatre veteran and Director of the National School of Drama Ebrahim Alkazi, and Roshen Alkazi, pioneering costumier and founder-director of Art Heritage, the memoir charmingly recounts the stories and anecdotes that constitute the history of Indian theatre, bringing them to life with insightful observations and more than 50 archival photographs. In this memorable session, he speaks to Quasar Thakore Padamsee to discuss the institutional legacy of their family and how they shaped the future of arts in India. In conversation with festival producer Sanjoy K Roy.

Enter Stage Right: The Alkazi-Padamsee Family Memoir is a heartfelt homage to one of the greatest alliances in the world of theatre and art in post-Independence India: the Alkazi-Padamsees. Penned by noted director Feisal Alkazi, son of the late theatre veteran and Director of the National School of Drama Ebrahim Alkazi, and Roshen Alkazi, pioneering costumier and founder-director of Art Heritage, the memoir charmingly recounts the stories and anecdotes that constitute the history of Indian theatre, bringing them to life with insightful observations and more than 50 archival photographs. In this memorable session, he speaks to Quasar Thakore Padamsee to discuss the institutional legacy of their family and how they shaped the future of arts in India. In conversation with festival producer Sanjoy K Roy.

Enter Stage Right - The Alkazi-Padamsee Family Memoir: Feisal Alkazi, Amal Allana, Quasar Thakore Padamsee with Sanjoy Roy

Today I have Quasar Thakore Padamsee &amp; Toral Shah with us on Audiogyan. These guys needs no introduction for people who belong to the world of theatre and arts. Quasar, apart from being an accomplished actor, writer, director and a producer, Q is also founder of Thespo Theatre festival which completed 20 years last December 2018. Toral is all things backstage. Toral started working full-time with QTP productions since June 2001. She worked in the capacity of administrator, in-house graphics designer, lights/sound operator, production manager and stage manager. She was the festival director of ‘Thespo’ in 2002 and from 1999 onwards has been the festival’s coordinator and art director.You travel across India for Thespo, big and small centres. What is transpiring across? Where do you think the real action lies when it comes to telling stories?Me and My team performed at Thespo almost 15 years back, how do you remember most of us and the name of the play also? What is the secret behind it?What are the significant changes you have seen in the Youth Mumbai theatre world in the last 20 years. This is w.r.t to performances, story telling, productions, acting, and more from creators stand point.You have published 4 plays in 2018. Can you tell us more about it? What and why?

Today I have Quasar Thakore Padamsee &amp; Toral Shah with us on Audiogyan. These guys needs no introduction for people who belong to the world of theatre and arts. Quasar, apart from being an accomplished actor, writer, director and a producer, Q is also founder of Thespo Theatre festival which completed 20 years last December 2018. Toral is all things backstage. Toral started working full-time with QTP productions since June 2001. She worked in the capacity of administrator, in-house graphics designer, lights/sound operator, production manager and stage manager. She was the festival director of ‘Thespo’ in 2002 and from 1999 onwards has been the festival’s coordinator and art director. You travel across India for Thespo, big and small centres. What is transpiring across? Where do you think the real action lies when it comes to telling stories? Me and My team performed at Thespo almost 15 years back, how do you remember most of us and the name of the play also? What is the secret behind it? What are the significant changes you have seen in the Youth Mumbai theatre world in the last 20 years. This is w.r.t to performances, story telling, productions, acting, and more from creators stand point. You have published 4 plays in 2018. Can you tell us more about it? What and why?

28: Youth Theatre of India with Quasar Thakore Padamsee & Toral Shah

Today I have Quasar Thakore Padamsee &amp; Toral Shah with us on Audiogyan. These guys needs no introduction for people who belong to the world of theatre and arts. Quasar, apart from being an accomplished actor, writer, director and a producer, Q is also founder of Thespo Theatre festival which completed 20 years last December 2018. Toral is all things backstage. Toral started working full-time with QTP productions since June 2001. She worked in the capacity of administrator, in-house graphics designer, lights/sound operator, production manager and stage manager. She was the festival director of ‘Thespo’ in 2002 and from 1999 onwards has been the festival’s coordinator and art director.What have been your 3 biggest challenges to keep it running for last 20 years?What are the 3 biggest learnings you had from young theatre enthusiast?It’s a cliche question but, Can you name any 5 plays which are must watch, originated from Thespo?What is your long term vision about Thespo? How do you see it shaping up in the future?

Today I have Quasar Thakore Padamsee &amp; Toral Shah with us on Audiogyan. These guys needs no introduction for people who belong to the world of theatre and arts. Quasar, apart from being an accomplished actor, writer, director and a producer, Q is also founder of Thespo Theatre festival which completed 20 years last December 2018. Toral is all things backstage. Toral started working full-time with QTP productions since June 2001. She worked in the capacity of administrator, in-house graphics designer, lights/sound operator, production manager and stage manager. She was the festival director of ‘Thespo’ in 2002 and from 1999 onwards has been the festival’s coordinator and art director. What have been your 3 biggest challenges to keep it running for last 20 years? What are the 3 biggest learnings you had from young theatre enthusiast? It’s a cliche question but, Can you name any 5 plays which are must watch, originated from Thespo? What is your long term vision about Thespo? How do you see it shaping up in the future?

27: Story behind Thespo with Quasar Thakore Padamsee & Toral Shah

Quasar Thakore Padamsee is the son of legendary Alyque Padamsee. Theatre runs in his veins as much as chai does. Salone and Quasar explore the relationship he had with his late father, worldly wisdom that he inherited from him, how is 30s different from 40s and why Chai has more resonance than coffee in theatre.

Midlifers with Salone Mehta | Quasar Thakore Padamsee | Radio Mirchi

“Theatre is about energy. It’s about the audience being curious and generous to the actors… that’s how the magical moments happen.” In episode #74 of Storytalking with Lakshya, I sat down with Quasar Thakore Padamsee, aka 'Q' - renowned theatre director and producer, co-founder of QTP (a theatre and arts production company), and curator of TATA Literature Live. I ask Q about how he got into theatre, what led him to co-create QTP and Thespo (a youth theatre collective run by people under 25, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary), how he chooses the stories he wants to tell, what makes theatre the most authentic medium for a storyteller to use to communicate with their audience, and how the art form is being reconceptualized, and recontextualized, by the playwrights of today.

“Theatre is about energy. It’s about the audience being curious and generous to the actors… that’s how the magical moments happen.” In episode #74 of Storytalking with Lakshya, I sat down with Quasar Thakore Padamsee, aka 'Q' - renowned theatre director and producer, co-founder of QTP (a theatre and arts production company), and curator of TATA Literature Live. I ask Q about how he got into theatre, what led him to co-create QTP and Thespo (a youth theatre collective run by people under 25, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary), how he chooses the stories he wants to tell, what makes theatre the most authentic medium for a storyteller to use to communicate with their audience, and how the art form is being reconceptualized, and recontextualized, by the playwrights of today.