| AT A GLANCE | THE PLAY | CAST AND CREDITS |
| Bahumukh, 2.30 & 6 pm, Sun, 10 Jan Multilingual, 75 minutes Director: Amitesh Grover  |
The departure point of this theatrical collaboration is a comics collaboration – When Kulbhushan Met Stockli - recently released by HarperCollins Publishers, India. It is created by 19 graphic novelists who express the shock, strangeness & humour in encountering the ‘other’ land/people in their stories and drawings. In Strange Lines, two people write letters to each other. They write about themselves, their lives, their cities and their nations. They draw their bodies and imagine the other’s. And then, they meet. The project seeks to play with the young art of graphic novel, the theatricality in drawing and ways in which drawing and theatre can come together to present notions of ‘Home and Away’, ‘Nativity and Foreignness’. Some stories from the book are adapted to form the narrative for the show, while others are improvised from the performers’ own lives. | Amit Saxena Julia Perazzini Text Work & New Writing – Keshav Kumar Video Design – Michel Weber Sound Design - Ish S Drawing – Dheerendra Dwivedi Production – Mukesh Documentation & Exhibition – Philippe Daerendinger Lights Design – Srikant Design & Assistant Direction – Kumaradas T N Concept and Direction – Amitesh Grover |