![]() ![]() The camera, on the other hand, is more intimate. Theatre has a live audience so actors need louder projection through over-thetop gesticulations. Individually, the energies required for both these mediums are different. The idea of CinePlays - India’s first celluloid experience of Indian theatre and a new language of storytelling - is to make theatre more accessible and give it a digital avatar. So we thought - why not add a lot of cinematic elements to the recording?” says Subodh. You can’t just superimpose one on the other without modifying it. “The grammar of the big screen is very different from that of theatre and the stage. ![]() So they started wondering if the solution lay in recording plays in such a way that the audience is not left with an incomplete feeling - which is how they came up with the idea of CinePlays. This made us truly realise how geographically locked theatre is - travel is expensive and coordinating the dates of everyone involved in the production is a mammoth task in itself,” says Subodh. It was physically impossible to give dates to every city and location and we ended up declining more shows than accepting. “It so happened that the play was so successful that we were getting called to perform many more shows than we could manage. One: it kicked off the acting career of industrialist Subodh Maskara and two: it inspired the concept of CinePlays that husband-wife duo Subodh and Nandita Das is currently working on popularising. April 27, 1974.having its world premiere at the Woods.By: Mrunmayi Ainapure CinePlay will debut in the city with the screening of Mahesh Dattani’s play, Dance Like A Man Between the Lines, a contemporary play set in urban India launched a few years ago, was a landmark project in the world of Indian theatre for two reasons. Jewish Encounters series (paperback ed.). Barney Ross: The Life of a Jewish Fighter. "Chicago Seeing Controversial 'Moon Is Blue' ". ^ "'Moon Is Blue,' Here June 22, Filmed in 2 Languages"."The Woods, last movie theater in Loop, goes dark". Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. Historic Movie Theatres in Illinois, 1883-1960. ^ a b Schiecke, Konrad (February 28, 2011).Movies that held their premieres at the Woods Theatre included: Block 37, which remained vacant until 2005, is southeast of the Goodman site. The site of the Harris and Selwyn (later Cinestage and Michael Todd, then Dearborn Cinemas) is now occupied by the Goodman Theatre Center. The Woods was located on the parcel directly northwest of the controversial Block 37, which once housed the Roosevelt and United Artists theaters. Beginning with the demolition of the Garrick Theatre on Randolph, many of Chicago's classic theaters were demolished either because of disuse or disrepair. The demolition was part of a controversial urban renewal project. ![]() Demolition Īfter being considered for entry in the National Register of Historic Places, it was demolished in 1990. It closed on January 8, 1989, after a screening of Hellbound: Hellraiser II. By 1988, the Woods had become the last of the Chicago Loop movie houses. In 1982, the management had to pay for medical treatments when a patron was bitten by a rat during a show. In its later years the quality of the venue declined. The facade and its marquee can be seen in the parade scene of the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Starting in the 1950s, the building featured an unusually large marquee facing Dearborn Street. It later became the flagship venue for Essaness Theatres, which moved its headquarters into the building. The Woods converted to show movies in 1932. The ten-story building included the theater at the ground level and offices above. It was designed in a Neo-Gothic style by the firm Marshall and Fox, which also designed such still-extant Chicago structures as the Blackstone Theatre (later renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre) and the Drake Hotel. The Woods opened on March 11, 1918, with a production of Friendly Enemies. He had opened the Eltinge Theatre in New York City to host his Broadway productions, and wanted a similar venue in Chicago for his road companies. The Woods Theatre was built by theatrical producer Albert H. It closed in 1989 and was demolished in 1990. Originally a venue for live theater, it later converted to show movies. It opened in 1918 and was a popular entertainment destination for decades. The Woods Theatre was a movie palace located at the corner of Randolph and Dearborn Streets in the Chicago Loop. ![]()
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