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Final
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Final year students’ presented
one billion one hundred thirty-nine million nine hundred sixty-four thousand nine hundred thirty-two and me |
an improvised multilingual play about
“Here & Now”
Direction: Denis Maillefer
The performances was held from 20th to 25th November 2009 at 6.30 pm daily with two additional shows on 21st & 22nd November 2009 at 3.00 pm. at Bahumukh, Bahawalpur House, Bhagwandas Road, New Delhi. |
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Past productions performed in this category were as follows:
Rangdhuli
The most recent third year production was Rangdhuli. Revolving around experiences of characters drawn from the Bedin community and the environment circling it, this devised play comprised of stories running forward and backward as held together thematically. The stories, too, were not exhaustive, but came to the fore through movements which at times were tentative and at others tangible. The play, which was based largely on dance and music, as these comprise the lives of the community, also raised questions on personal and social fallouts of tradition, illegitimacy and marginalization.
Direction: Tripurari Sharma
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King Lear
The play was a revisiting of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy by the same name, as based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman king, and is particularly noted for its probing observations on the nature of human suffering and kinship.
Direction: Oblyakuli Khodjakuli |
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Jal Damroo Baje
The play was based on a flood that renders a large number of people homeless and causes death and destruction. However, as people try to survive the calamity they remain victims to the greater plagues of casteism, regionalism, communalism, corruption and discrimination that raise their ugly heads even in the midst of disaster in which all human beings are rendered equally impotent and helpless by forces larger than themselves.
Directed by Ram Gopal Bajaj.
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Khamosh Adalat Jari Hai
Vijay Tendulkar’s Khamosh Adalat Jari Hai is based on a group of amateur actors who come to a small town to perform a play. While waiting for the show they start a mock trial in the spirit of fun. One of the actresses, Miss Benare, is asked to play the role of the accused and is charged with the crime of infanticide. At the trail the actors come to suspect that Miss Benare is carrying the child of a married intellectual who is refusing to take responsibility for it. Gradually, the inner jealousies, pettiness and prejudices of the group reveal themselves and the mock-trial takes on the form of a witch-hunt. The mock court announces a mock verdict sentencing Miss Benare to kill the child in her womb. The criminal act with which she is initially charged finally emerges as the punishment she is finally asked to carry out.
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Direction: Ram Gopal Bajaj |
Evam Indrajit
Badal Sirkar’s Evam Indrajit is the story of Amal, Vimal, Kamal, Indrajit, Manasi and Aunty. It tracks their lives as thy go from being carefree college-goers to anxious job searching professionals to individuals dealing with the demands of domesticity. Through all these journeys the audience is taken through the rigmaroles of Indrajit's mind, his fears, apprehensions, his romance and his heart-break. The play captures the different ways in which life evolves and raises questions of human selfhood and identity.
Direction: Dipankar Paul. |
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Ucchakka
Based on Laxman Gaikwad’s Marathi novel, Uchalya, the play was contextualized against the Criminal Tribe Act,1871, Act XXVII, whereby the British branded a number of marginalized groups (Tribes), believed to be innately criminal and made elaborate arrangements for their surveillance, – a policy that went well with their larger strategy of imperial governance aiming to keep the subject population segregated and sequestrated into various strata. When the Act was introduced in 1971 stress was laid on ethnological categories of caste that linked profession, upbringing and background. A later amendment in 1897 created a provision for ‘Separation of the Children of Criminal Tribes’ between four to eighteen years of age that took them away from their parents and placed them in reformatory settlements.
The play looks at those who were criminalized by the British, marginalized by the Indian government and branded thieves forever. The narrative is split into several voices and the methodology uses internal gestures as opposed to straight illustration.
Direction: Anamika Haksar.
Previous Final Year Productions
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