THEATRE “Up Route” English / Hindi Play by Improper Fractions at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 7:30pm on 18th June 2016

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Time : 7:30 pm Add to Calendar 18/06/2016 19:30 18/06/2016 20:50 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE “Up Route” by Improper Fractions Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/06/theatre-up-route-by-improper-fractions.html Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 80 mins. 

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : THEATRE “Up Route” by Improper Fractions 

The play is based on the Exemplary Novels, The Two Damsels, Rinconete and Cortadillo and The Spanish English Lady

As part of 'Music & Performing Arts' Series

400 anniversary of the death of Cervantes.

“Up Route” A performance piece exploring the subject of home and exile, based on three of Miguel Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels. The performance consists of three short pieces that explore the recurring themes of home and exile in Cervantes’ writing. A young woman deserted by her lover, runs away from home, masquerading as a man, to escape the shame and stigma of a broken relationship. A second is about a conman’s big city dreams, and his imagination of what life can offer away from the everyday drudgery of work and hierarchical familial relationships. He arrives in the city eager to practice his craft of deception, only to discover an elaborate, already flourishing brotherhood of thieves. The final piece contemporizes Cervantes’ preoccupation with exile to understand the dilemma of a young girl who’s torn between continuing to live in her home country in the midst of an unabating war or to undertake a dangerous journey to an unknown land. The stories are based on Cervantes’ exemplary tales of The Two Damsels, Rinconete and Cortadillo and The Spanish English Lady.

About the theatre company: Improper Fractions came into being in the summer of 2012 as a group dedicated to exploring the incongruous, fragmentary, disruptive, off-key and awkward in theatre. We are interested in creating possibilities for intersections and parallel co-existence of different forms, patterns, languages of movement/ speech. All this, while we experiment and play with the strange as well as familiar conjoining of imagination and reality. IF has produced three major plays, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and That Photograph (performed at Akshara Theatre and Studio Safdar and The Storm (performed during the Short and Sweet Theatre Festival, Delhi 2012). We equally commit ourselves to introducing and nurturing theatre for the young organizing workshops on story-telling, movement and improvisation for children.

About the director: Manjari Kaul is an associate artist at DUENDE, an international ensemble, an independent performer and theatre director. In November 2014 she premiered her solo show as part of The Delhi International Arts Festival. June 2014 she directed and performed Paloma Pedrero’s Parting Gestures as part of Women by Women, a series of plays curated by Yellowcat Theatre Co., in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi. The play was performed at Instituto Cervantes and Studio Safdar in New Delhi. July 2012 she directed and performed That Photograph (an adaptation of What are the Chances by Kellie Powell) produced by Improper Fractions. The play was performed at Akshara Theatre and Studio Safdar in New Delhi. As an active member of the Dramatics Society in college, she directed and acted in several plays; Ariel Dorfman’s Widows and Jean Genet’s The Maids, being two of them. In 2005 she won the Excellence in Acting award at the Old World Theatre Festival. In 2006 and 2007 she won the Best Actor awards at Lady Irwin College and Khalsa College, Delhi respectively. Manjari’s work engages with the understanding of how we use our bodies to communicate, learn and comprehend real and imagined worlds.

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