Written by Dipanitha Nath |New Delhi |Published: December 26, 2018 1:28:03 pm
Anuradha Kapur, former Director of NSD, returns to create a powerful political play with final year students
The young cast powerfully plays out the changing dynamics between the individual and the society. Also a member of the cast and a character by itself is a printing press that becomes an ally in a woman’s quest to be heard.
In a drain, clogged with chips packets, used condoms and unassorted garbage, a little girl’s body is dumped after she is raped and murdered. In a natural corollary, the actions that flow include her mother’s knocking on the doors of administration and the police, sounds of support all around and, ultimately, a silence amid the hushed whispers of horror. In this place, tottering between a village and town, with blink-and-you-miss appearances of water and electricity, life itches to return to the routines of survival. Except, in the play Nale Wali Ladki, which was staged by final year students of National School of Drama in Delhi, the mother is not merely grief-stricken but determined to get justice and this causes the situation that the establishment fears — disobedience.
The young cast powerfully plays out the changing dynamics between the individual and the society. Also a member of the cast and a character by itself is a printing press that becomes an ally in a woman’s quest to be heard. The performances are enabled by an innovative set by Deepan Sivaraman in which moving platforms on rails run through the performance space and transport the various scenes and elements, from a miniature model of the village-town to the printing press to the police station.
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