Festival Archives

Curated by Atul Kumar

Ashrafi and Bilal are orphaned siblings stranded and defined by the troubles in Kashmir. 18-year-old Bilal is the pride of the region, part of a teenage football team set for great heights and pushed to the limits by the violence around them. Haunted by hope, his sister is caught in the past, and Bilal is torn between escaping the myths of war and the cycles of resistance.

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Curated by Arundhati Nag

Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ (1970) responds to events unfolding in Italy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Generally, it looks at police corruption and suspicions regarding the government’s collusion in this corruption. More specifically, it addresses the actual death of an anarchist who was being held in police custody following the bombing of a Milan bank that killed sixteen people and wounded about ninety.

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Curated by Arundhati Nag

‘I do not write about the farmer and the mill worker because I do not know their lives well enough. I empathise more with the travails of the middle and lower middle classes.’ – Ismat Chugtai

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Curated by Atul Kumar

On a Different Note is an immersive theatrical experience that journeys slowly  through music, light, and an abandoned structure. We are led from one moment to the next, with no way to go back and no way to let it go. With each chapter we learn a little more of a story that is our own making.  As we fill these room that were once alive with sounds and voices and a little bit of our lives,  we give hope to ourselves and others who make this journey with us.

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Curated by Atul Kumar

Photo-Copy is a tale about a blemished family of 4 living individuals and the hope of the existence of a ‘late’ member. An irreparable loss of the head of the family: a husband and father leave the rest in a state of uncertainty.

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Curated by Atul Kumar

Table Radica is a food table, an archival table, a listener’s table. Audiences are invited to gather around the table, become visitors, friends, tasters and witnesses to a radical life led on stage and beyond.

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Curated by Anuja Ghosalkar & Kai Tuchmann

A theatre that stands in close relationship to real events in the world is the starting point for our two-and- half day meeting. Such a ‘Theatre of the Real’ to borrow a phrase from academic Carol Martin, has been known by varied terms during different times and places—Documentary theatre, Verbatim theatre, Newspaper theatre, Reenactment theatre- to mention a few.

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Curated by Arundhati Nag

Early experiences in the theatre allow young children an indelible experience that is deeply sensorial and perhaps even contributes to the beginning of their aesthetic journeys. Toddlers’ theatre is an endeavour to this end. Toddlers experience time, space and action in a more sensorially active manner than adults do. Plays specially designed for toddlers actively consider their experience of the world.

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Curated by Arundhati Nag

A woman is getting ready to welcome a young man, who has rented a room in her house—her son’s room. She feels uncomfortable that a stranger will be staying in this room and she is uncertain about what to say to him when he arrives.

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Curated by Atul Kumar

A selection of stories that begin on a random day, are first-hand retellings of day-to-day life in Nizamuddin Basti. The spectator is invited to enter the performer’s world—through the everydayness of the narrative. The stories emphasise how gender and sexuality plays out in the lives of the four actors. Conversations about family, trust, consent, personal space and gender dynamics begin to surface.

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Curated by Arundhati Nag

‘Boy with a Suitcase’ is Ranga Shankara’s flagship production—a unique Indo-German collaboration that brings together people of different nationalities to make a play that relates to all of us. A play written by Mike Kenny about migration and the idea of home, it was topical when it was written several years ago and is still relevant today. It has been directed by Andrea Gronemeyer, one of Europe’s top directors of theatre for the young.

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Shelter is a monumental participatory installation created by assembling cardboard modules of identical shape and size, by interlocking, without using tape or glue. Shelter is an interactive proposal for an audience that is in transit and is diverted from its primary purpose to participate in the making of the installation.

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Curated by Arundhati Nag

The central idea behind the two-hour play is the question—what does one love in someone? Do we love their mind, or their heart? Here, the heart is representative of the body and the tangible, while the head represents the intangible—wisdom, poetry. ‘Hayavadana’ was scripted by Dr. Girish Karnad who has rendered rich literature, and directed by the theatre legend B.V. Karanth with lilting music.

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Curated by Atul Kumar

[1] “Where the tune is familiar and the end emphatic – lovers united, villains discomfited, intrigues exposed – as it is in most Victorian fiction, we can scarcely go wrong, but where the tune is unfamiliar and the end a note of interrogation or merely the information that they went on talking, as it is in Tchekov, we need a very daring and alert sense of literature to make us hear the tune, and in particular those last notes which complete the harmony.” (Virginia Woolf)

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Curated by Serendipity Arts Foundation

The participants registered must assemble at Panjim Inn, Fontainhas 15th to 20th December, 4:00pm and at 91Springboard on 21st and 22nd December, 4:00pm’
Registrations for a particular day close on the previous day at 5:00pm. Walk in participants are welcome, on a first come – first serve basis.

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Curated by Atul Kumar

Space and listening are fundamental starting points of our work as actors and theatre makers. We all arrive with our unique experiences and backgrounds into the shared space of a creative process and gradually learn how to hear each other.

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