Invisible Cities

One day we move on to a city. Then to another….. And to another and another. We reach or we start departing. We may doubt the use of endless journeys.

Use? Or uselessness?..... Bored from the deep inside and destined to despair. We see cities….. Cities, concrete and solid as versions of the real. The hell and the heaven lie besides the cityscape,..... where we can meet ourselves in the city square,..... windows, doorsteps or in the god homes. And suddenly we realize a breeze or a cold rain.....

With hands resting on the shoulders of a co-traveller. Cities are like flying bees,..... Of holding hands together and finding the self. Visions of life unwrap at once.

Performed by Sreenivas, Ajayakumar, Fawas, Jain and Abhija. Technical Support : Shajahan & Suresh (Sound), Roy (Light), Ashok Fabiano & Jose Kizhakkel (Set), Abheesh (Costume), Chandran Vayattummel (Music). Stage Manager : Pratheesh

Concept & Design : Firoz Khan.

Pacha

A boy and a girl play a cat and mouse game. They fight over who is to play what. The girl agrees to play the mouse for the first round. As the play intensifies into hard labour, the audience is pulled towards a skewed view of human relations in continuous flux. On a fresh green carpet... the real, the games and the dreams move through ages, spaces and desires. PACHA explores the notions of dualities and opposites, revolves around constructs of masculinity and femininity and new rules being continuously added. Beyond the invisible walls, through thick, visible transparency... questions are thrown at the spectators: are men and women opposites? What lies outside the arena of dualities? .

Performed by Abhija and Pratheesh / Fawas. Technical Support : Shajahan (Sound), Roy (Light), Anto K.G. (Set).

Music : Sreenivas, Ajayakumar, Joy Nandavanam, Pratheesh, Jain. Directed by Surjith Gopinath.

Shuddhamaddalam

On the narrow rail bridge do the protagonists realize the ecstasy of life winning over the agony of death. And quiet flows the music from “Shuddhamaddalam” to a new world where anyone can enjoy the lyric of another and compose the eternal music of life. An independent adaptation of N.N. Pilla’s “SHUDDHAMADDALAM”.

Performed by Amalraj & Rajesh Sharma. Creative Contribution : P.J. Unnikrishnan (Theatre Initiative Kerala)