Of Love, Loss and Longing | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Of Love, Loss and Longing | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Parul |Published: August 11, 2019 1:56:37 pm

Of Love, Loss and Longing

Theatre director Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry on her new production, Gumm Hai, loss and how it can change the dynamics within a family and community.

Scenes from the rehearsal of Gumm Hai. (Source: Kamleshwar Singh)

Theatre director Neelam Man Singh Chowdhry is immersed in the final rehearsals of her new production, Gumm Hai, the play which opens at India Habitat Centre in the Capital on August 18 and then travels to Chandigarh. The play, says Chowdhry, was a way of engaging with the world, dealing with lost memories and retrieval and archiving of these memories through performance and storytelling. Excerpts from an interview: