Hers is the opening show at the Aadyam theatre festival. Purva Naresh, writer and director of the play Bandish 20: 20000HZ, can feel the responsibility. It sort of sets the mood and tempo for all that’s going to follow. The good thing is that her thoughts don’t wreak havoc on her mind. Working with the medium has sobered her outlook to be exquisitely balanced in the way she understands people and things. That’s reflected in the stories she stages too, Bandish 20: 20000HZ not being an exception.
The play is about four artistes, two of whom are yesteryear singers from different disciplines. “As they reminisce and dwell in some alluring nostalgia, they also work through human politicking, generational and cultural gaps with the other two young artistes, as the younger ones are affected by the conversations between them. They also travel through time via their stories and look through life and relationships with some renewed perspective,” says Naresh.
Aadyam was conceptualised on the vision that all artistes be given creative independence, without worrying about securing a full house.
This time round, you’ll find plays such as Anand Express by Nadir Khan, Mother Courage and Her Children by Quasar Thakore Padamsee, Under the Gypsy Moon by Akash Khurana, and others. Go watch.
Good to know: May 28, at 4 pm and 7.30 pm, at Kamani Auditorium, on Copernicus Marg.
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