The Park’s THE OTHER FESTIVAL
- 2003
Music.
Dance. Drama. Art. You.
December
1-7, 2003, 7pm
Chinmaya
Heritage Centre, Harrington Road, Chennai
Thursday,
Dec 4, 2003
PRITHAM
CHAKRAVARTHY (Chennai)
“Vellavi,”
Solo Theatre
Pritham K
Chakravarthy is a playwright, director, performer, film critic and activist
from Chennai. Recent performances include: Meendum meendum, Surya Mukam
and Nirvanam - her own solo piece about aravanis. The latter has
toured India, the USA under a Fulbright Fellowship and 2002 Edinburgh International
Festival. She is presently working on Orientations, a theatre production
by Border Crossings, which opened in October 2003 at Watermans in London,
UK. This piece will tour the UK and India in 2004-05.
Vellavi, an
autobiographical narrative about a traditional dhobi woman, was documented
by Parthibaraja, coordinated by A Mangai and produced by Voicing Silence
of M
S Swaminathan Research Foundation. |
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This
single woman piece covering the socio-economic life of a traditional dhobi
in remote Tamilnadu was premiered at Dalit Kalai Vizha in 1998 and has
traveled to a variety of audiences since then.
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