All The World's A Stage

For Lawkim Motors Group’s Vijay Crishna, the Move From the Boardroom to the Stage Is Always a Seamless One

- Laveena Iyer

A woman in a man’s world may be considered progressive but a man in a woman’s world is just pathetic,” announces an exasperated Amritlal Parekh. A character so contemp-tuous and conflicted but yet so relatable, brought alive on stage by Vijay Crishna for Dance Like A Man — an English play directed on stage by actress and theatre doyenne, Lillete Dubey that had 550 shows over the past 15 years. And an even more exalted performance was the one, where Crishna played a Chicago gangster bearing an uncanny resemblance to Adolf Hitler in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, written by a German playwright and adapted for the Indian audience by theatre veteran, the late Pearl Padamsee. “We did only five shows of that play but of all the productions I’ve acted in, people remember me for my performance in that play,” beams Crishna, executive director, Lawkim Motors Group.