Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Published: April 12, 2019 1:13:56 am
Matter of Life and Death
Presented by the Bengali theatre group Dhumketu, the play is riddled with statistics. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, India has the sixth-highest female suicide death rates in the world; and more than one lakh people have committed suicide every year, over the last decade.
Perched atop a deserted office terrace on a Christmas night in Mumbai, a group of suicidal people, in what may appear a play by destiny, bump into each other. There’s a former athlete, who was once set to compete in the Olympics, before life took a different turn and handed him a prosthetic leg. There’s a gay man, fed up of being ostracised for his sexual identity; an old man, once a famous actor, but now senile and living with incontinence; and a woman, physically abused by her partner, and slut-shamed for sleeping with multiple men. Each of them decide to tell their life stories at this chance meeting in Piyali Dasgupta’s play Suicide Note. The play that aims to destigmatise mental health premiered in the capital yesterday.
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