Written by Ravikiran Rajendran Language: Kannada Approximate duration: 90 minutes SYNOPSIS In a Savarna world, how do Dalit women live is a question that is perhaps too ambitious to be addressed in a play. 'Live' is also a word that is packed with such an ambition. For centuries now though, Dalit women have practised art in various forms, and passed it down as heirloom from generation to generation. For a long time, this art was a way of identity, sometimes an escape from it. In an urban academic work space, how does a Dalit woman's art manifest? How is it received? What can she learn from how her mother and grandmother survived and how they managed to keep their art alive? In the words of writer Claudia Rankine, how does a self-self thrive in a world where people only recognise and value a historical self? The World of Writing tries to ‘find’ voices from the margins - Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi communities as if they never existed or the world of the dominant communitie...
Written by Amulya B Language: Kannada Approximate duration: 95 minutes SYNOPSIS What if you could be given a choice to not be born? Would you take it? Voluntarily giving up on the chance to procreate, Dhatri lives on an island with an isolated population of anti-natalists, who have turned their back on life, by sterilizing themselves. When an unexplained pregnancy occurs, the already fragile lives of characters are thrown into disarray. Parallelly, a man-made river, carrying hundreds of dead rivulets inside her has also descended upon the island, in search of salvation. Memories and dreams haunt the characters creating an atmosphere where uncanny has become the norm. The play is a response to the contemporary eco-anxiety when the most intelligent species of the earth cannot avert its eyes from the spectacle of its own destruction. AN EXCERPT [ರಂಗ ಇನ್ನೂ ಕತ್ತಲಲ್ಲಿರುವಾಗಲೇ ಯಾರೋ ಜೋರಾಗಿ ಉಸಿರಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸದ್ದು. ಜೊತೆ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಟಿಕ್ ಟಿಕ್ ಎಂಬ ಗಡಿಯಾರದ ಸದ್ದು ಬರುತ್ತಿದೆ. ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ರಂಗದ ಮೇಲೆ ಬ...