Curated by Atul Kumar
Meet Shilpa- an attractive, interactive, user-friendly, and the most popular mobile phone app of 2018. Created using the latest technology, Shilpa will sing for you– in the flesh. She will hum the songs you want to hear in her sugary and husky voice, and shake her hips when you want her to as she dances to your favourite tune. Best of all, she behaves exactly the way women are supposed to behave in the eyes of men; that is, until the next update is released.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
Among all the Bhasa plays, Urubhangam has an eternal relevance cutting across centuries. In this play, the hero is Duryodhana, usually regarded as the anti-hero or the villain in all the traditional renderings of Mahabharata. The plot maintains a unique objective perspective while approaching the great battle of Mahabharata, which almost criticises the whole exercise of the war.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
There are many layers of marginalization that have stemmed since time immemorial owing to stereotypes and stigmas. Its time for the paradigms to change and allow for voices to be heard and to shed light on issues that need social awareness. The intent is to create a platform that showcases creative performances which will reflect the realities of marginalized people and issues.
Curated by Atul Kumar
Saket, a self-proclaimed ‘anti-national’ has called an Uber to reach home at midnight. Saket gives directions to the Uber driver, but the driver is understanding what he is saying. Meanwhile, Suna, a self-proclaimed ‘urban Naxal’ is caught watching pornography at Saket’s house, and the Narcotics Department has discovered the marijuana plants at Saket’s house.
Curated by Arundhati Nag
The show follows two performers as they discover that there is much more to plastic than what meets the eye. Cellophane sheets, poly bags, and plastic bottles transform through rhythm, sound, light and shadow creating ever-changing worlds of shape-shifting wonder
Curated by Atul Kumar
Four bodies trace a trajectory of thought within a circular space, moving to feel the negative space around each other as much as the space within the intention to move. Every time they move, they reach out towards something – constantly creating different relationships with everything around – constantly seeking to reinvent themselves
Curated by Atul Kumar
T.S Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ examines the disillusionment of a man with the times he is living in. Derived from this literary masterpiece, the performance uses the interplay of the human body to understand the poem’s protagonist and the structures surrounding him. In the attempt to find Prufrock inside the performers’ bodies, residing alongside their own anxieties, the performance ends up creating multiple Prufrocks. All cramped inside this overwhelming world of ours, the fractured narrative is threaded delicately by swift movements through urban landscape
Curated by Arundhati Nag
Using methods and approaches of creating a non-verbal sensorial play for toddlers, the sensorial pedagogy workshop has a twin objective. In working with a mix of theatre practitioners and primary school teachers within the same space, the workshop aims to trigger an imagination for the teachers to re-invent their classroom space while challenging the theatre practitioners to work on a form which cannot use verbal language.
Curated by Atul Kumar
Set in a thriving underground club scene in Mumbai, Gentlemen’s Club follows the lives of various drag kings who perform in the city that never sleeps. The protagonist Rocky, aka Shammsher, pays homage to the legendary Shammi Kapoor and the golden era of Hindi cinema. Joined by a motley crew of women who revel in drag performances, this cabaret like show takes the audience into a grimy secret world that gives you the license to be whoever you want.
Curated by Atul Kumar
Notes on Chai is a collection of snippets of everyday conversations inter woven with abstract sound explorations that attempt to relocate our relationship with the quotidian. The piece explores the inner and outer landscape of urban life through everyday conversations. The humour created through these details carries within it desires, fears and insecurities of the mundane that remain unsaid and yet palpable.
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