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A sonic theatre experience from Abhi Tambe
Mint Bangalore
|March 13, 2025
Tambe's Portal Waiting is one of 10 plays nominated at META 2025
In 2023, Bengaluru-based singer-songwriter Abhi Tambe released an EP. Created during the covid lockdown, the six-track album had an end-of-the-world apocalyptic feel. Portal Waiting wasn't just released as an EP but also as a play, written, directed and performed by Tambe himself. The solo immersive performance fuses theatre, sound and live music, and is experienced through headphones. It has been nominated in four categories, including Best Play and Best Director, at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META). The nominated plays will be showcased in Delhi between 13-20 March.
Tambe, who had never directed a theatre performance before Portal Waiting, says he was only attempting to present his EP in a different way. "It's not just a set of songs but a narrative. It was only when I was getting ready to release the EP that I started wondering about ways of performing it."
This story is from the March 13, 2025 edition of Mint Bangalore.
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