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Abhimanch, 9.30pm, Tue, 19 Jan Non-verbal, 60 minutes Script: Based on the Tamil epic Chilapathikkaram Direction/Choreography: Jayachandran Palazhy |
THE PLAY Inspired by the famous Tamil epic, Chilapathikkaram, this multi-media performance takes the audience through an episodic journey traversing layers of temporal and physical locations that often defy conventional notions of space and chronology. The performance attempts to create a complex non-linear dramaturgy by placing deliberately stylized physical movements in digitally constructed and changing stage architecture. These movements are abstractions of images derived from contemporary experiences, imagination and memories, organized to create a sensorial journey without chronology. Anchored on a central female character represented by three dancers, the piece journeys through rural, urban, historical, contemporary and even mythic contexts, as time dissolves and dislocates, infusing the landscape with tenderness and loss. The performance also explores how images from ordinary existence – childhood, friendship, marriage, motherhood, conflict and death – encounter inexplicable interventions and forces that alter life and catapult it out of orbit. |
CAST & CREDITS Sumesh Vazhukkal Myilswamy Denny Paul Machampilly Diya Naidu Hemabharathy Palani Jyotsna Baleshwar Rao Interactive Scenography - Christopher Salter |