Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: June 28, 2019 9:01:01 am
Theatre director Kirti Jain revisits a classic story about a Bengali middle-class housewife to comment on present-day patriarchy
Born in 1949, Kirti Jain grew up in a country that was undergoing sociocultural and political transformations, fuelled by new ideas and idealism.
Confined to the andar mahal (inner chamber) of her husband’s home, Subarnalata in Ashapoorna Devi’s eponymous novel, fights patriarchy all her life and searches for a space that is her own. The novel, the second in Devi’s trilogy about three generations of women of a family, was adapted for the stage by Gitanjali Shree and directed by Kirti Jain in 1999. This weekend, Jain will revive the play with Kshitij Theatre Group at Stein auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Delhi.
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