Abhishek Majumdar won TFA's 2010 Creative Writing Award for his play An Arrangement of Shoes. The play will now be staged at Rangashankara on the 15th and 16th of November, and in Alliance Francaise on the 26th and 27th of November.
ABOUT THE PLAY
An
Arrangement of Shoes is the story of one family told by
Rukhsar, a young small town girl who has moved to Delhi. The production sets this
story of one family against the backdrop of the history of modern India, and
the Gulf War. This production asks searching questions about the condition of
minority communities in modern India. Our production contextualizes the story
of Rukhsar’s family within the depiction of Muslims in mainstream cinema using
video projections of Bollywood songs. These videos form a part of Rukhsar
mental and emotional landscape, blending in to her story and commenting upon it.
The play is structured as a non-linear narrative,
weaving together ‘flashbacks’ and ‘intercuts’ and ‘closeups’ in the cinematic
style so loved by Rukhsar’s family. The same performer plays all the roles in An Arrangement of Shoes, presenting an
enormous challenge to the performer and a theatrical event with enormous
possibilities.
If An Arrangement
of Shoes is a story of a family’s love and loss, it is also the story of the
shrinking spaces for alternate identities in modern India, one with grave
consequences to our nation.
Tickets
available at:
Ranga Shankara
Box Office
Alliance
Francaise Café
To email book
tickets, write to tickets@theatrecounteract.com
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