ANNUAL OLD WORLD COLLEGIATE THEATRE FESTIVAL
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Feb.26 & 27 | 7:00pm
Abhivyakti, Maitreyi College
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Uncivilised Daughters Bilingual/55mins
Director : Sana Thapa
Playwright : Kuldeep Kunal
Cast
Sejal : Arsh Dadwal
Pakhi : Mrinal Yadav
Naina : Shivani Behl
Riya : Shikha Dimri
Ashima : Malvika Singh
Karuna : Pooja Prasad
Shoumita : Chaitali Pant
Divya : Prakriti Anand
Shefali : Vrinda Sehgal
Chitra : Shriya Tandon
Harleen : Urjita Bhardwaj
Kavya : Anisha Sarma
Backstage & Production : Deepmala Tiwari (Costumes), Priyali
Dhingra (Music & Sound), Garima Lunia
(Lights)
Synopsis:
Uncivilised Daughters raises questions about women's sexuality, their bodies, and attempts to understand the internalized oppressions and the cultural conditioning with which women are forced to live.
From being castigated for wearing particular kinds of dresses to eating particular kinds of food, women are always made to feel uncomfortable and uneasy about their body and in turn their sexuality. Her body becomes the site of the family's honour. To the extent that she is responsible for whatever happens to her body, it is considered her duty to protect it. She carries this burden from the moment she is born to her death. Her body thus becomes a double-edged sword, one that she can neither leave nor live in. But she has to exist in the same body. Her rebellion gives rise to a conflict which in turn gives birth to 'uncivilised daughters'.
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Feb.26 & 27 | 8:10pm
The Players, Kirori Mal College
Viraag Bilingual/45mins
Directors & Adaptation : Naval Garg & Shobhit Agarwal
Playwright : Israel Horovitz
Cast
Gyatso : Anchungla Bhutia
Ravi : Shobhit Agarwal
Krutesh : Samarth Surana
Backstage & Production : Afreen Sen Chatterji, Aadya Pandey (Sets),
Naval Garg (Sound), Vishwas Dhingra,
Abhinav Khetarpal (Lights), Afreen Sen
Chatterji, Aadya Pandey (Production)
Synopsis:
The play explores the lack of communication that occurs between people who have no shared language and culture. The ease with which two friends look at a third person, who is different from them, as a 'lesser' being � even to the extent of denying him a shared humanity � is explored in our play through the use of two languages, one of which is intended to be inaccessible to the audience as well.
In other words, despite its use of two languages, our play uses monolingualism as a method of providing audiences a direct experience of the alienation that results when communication breaks down. That our two protagonists are themselves 'outsiders' to their own environment provides an ironical twist and a violent conclusion.
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