THEATRE "Enter at Your Own Risk" Hinglish Play at Studio Safdar, May Day Bookstore & Cafe 2254/2A, Ground Floor, Shadi Khampur > 7pm on 11th March 2017

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 11/03/2017 19:00 11/03/2017 20:10 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE "Enter at Your Own Risk" Hinglish Play Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/03/theatre-enter-at-your-own-risk-hinglish_9.html Studio Safdar, May Day Bookstore & Cafe 2254/2A, Ground Floor, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi - 110008 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Note : None of the events are ticketed. Studio Safdar is unable to pay anything to the artists who enrich our lives, unless you contribute. We’ll spread the chadar at the end of the performance. These contributions will be shared 50:50 with the artists.

Venue : Studio Safdar, May Day Bookstore & Cafe 2254/2A, Ground Floor, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi - 110008
Venue Info : About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Shadipur(Blue Line)Exit Gate-5'
Landmark : next to DMS booth

Event Description : THEATRE "Enter at Your Own Risk" Hinglish Play. 

A 'seditious' play in a few scenes showing sanity and insanity performed by actors as inmates of National Paagal khaana.- By Order of Toba Tek Singh.

'Enter at your own risk. A 'seditious' play in a few scenes showing sanity and insanity performed by actors as inmates of National Paagal khaana - By order of Toba Tek Singh' is a devised experimental play inspired by the works of Sa’adat Hasan Manto. Poems by Shubha, Majaaz Lucknawi and Amrita Pritam have been weaved in the narrative. The play tries to explore the notions of sanity and insanity, through multiple narratives weaved in a non-linear structure, by critiquing the madness of aggressive nationalism. It looks at how this kind of nationalism breeds fascist ideology and how it regulates women’s bodies to assert power, making it a site of nationalist politics, violence and conflict. 

From the vantage point of partition, it brings into focus some of the contemporary issues - Muzaffarnagar riots, Jaat reservation riots and violence in Kashmir and Manipur. The madness that led to the division of the country in 1947, which Manto has critiqued in his works, continues even today through divisive and communal politics. The play tries to bring forth the danger which is lurking around us in the form of upsurge of blind patriotism and nationalistic fervour; and the urgency with which we need to resist it.

Cast : 
Anand : Narrator, Khuda, Ishar Singh, Chorus
Ashish : Bashir, Chorus
Gaurav : Sirajuddin, Chorus
Madhu : Sharifan, Chorus
Rashi : Sakina, Chorus
Sukriti : Dead girl, Chorus
Tushar : Abbas, Chorus
Vijay : Manto 
Vishwas : Qasim, Chorus
Yagyashree: Suraiya (Sharifan’s mother), Chorus    

Directed by : Sukriti Khurana 

Co-directed by Rashi Mishra

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