On June 11 and 12, the city plays host to two of the newest plays at Writers' Bloc 4.
Sat, June 11Flypaper Trap (English)
3:30pm
7:30pm
Rs. 200
Playwright
Swati Simha
Directors
Ashish Sen and Niranjan Gokhale
Mundhirikotte (Tamil)
3:30pm
7:30pm
Rs. 200
Playwright
Sunandha Raghunathan
Director
Anitha Santhanam
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About the plays
Flypaper Trap
‘FLYPAPER TRAP’ delves into how the rhetoric of demonizing the “other” and the language of genocide enters a young girl. As every Azan from the newly constructed mosque brews hate in the child, a forbidden relationship ensues – there’s blood on her pants, the windows are shattered, paper planes are burnt, the garden becomes a grave and there’s fire next door. But can we hear the sound of fire?
Playwright
Swati Simha
Directors
Ashish Sen and Niranjan Gokhale
Cast
Puttani: Sindhu S.
Anna: Rakesh Batra
Srini: Nakul Bhalla
Kamaal: Mikhail Sen
Mariam: Lekha Naidu
Rashid: Manosh Sengupta
Credits
Backstage: Suraksh Das
Movement: Shiva Subramanian
Language and Speech Adviser: Zafer Mohiuddin
Playwright's Note
“Flypaper Trap' is a carnivorous plant species that uses an intensely pleasant honey odour to attract its prey and then traps the insect or small animal on its lethally adhesive surface. It is a metaphor for the kind of attraction Kamal and Puttani share, not knowing who the prey is and who the predator.” - Swati Simha
Director's Note
“The images that leap out of ‘Flypaper Trap’ make it a powerful play for our times. Radicalization is making news today. But how many of us are ready to reckon with it? ‘Flypaper Trap’ compels you to take another look as it unpeels radicalization’s destructive intent.” - Ashish Sen
Mundhirikkotte
'Let's bet that I'll make friends before last period tomorrow.'
For 12 year old K.P and his mother Pavunu, Parangipettai in coastal Tamil Nadu is an unfamiliar place. As they settle in, they soon become aware of their invisibility, their precarious position and the dangers of ambition for people like them.
Mundhirikkotte asks whether one can make a right choice in a wrong world. As the lives of three different communities cross paths, each will have to make a choice that will change their lives forever.
For 12 year old K.P and his mother Pavunu, Parangipettai in coastal Tamil Nadu is an unfamiliar place. As they settle in, they soon become aware of their invisibility, their precarious position and the dangers of ambition for people like them.
Mundhirikkotte asks whether one can make a right choice in a wrong world. As the lives of three different communities cross paths, each will have to make a choice that will change their lives forever.
Playwright
Sunandha Raghunathan
Director
Anitha Santhanam
Cast
Charles Vinoth
Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Mohammed Umar. D
Niran Vikctor B
Prasanna Ramkumar .R
Vasanth Selvam
Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Mohammed Umar. D
Niran Vikctor B
Prasanna Ramkumar .R
Vasanth Selvam
Light design: P. Vinay Chandra
Set Design: Martin Laferriere
Playwright's Note
“Mundhirikkotte literally translates to the seed of a cashew but it's used in common parlance to denote someone who is an enthu cutlet because the cashew seed, unlike other fruits, protrudes out of the fruit; so it’s a play about people like me!” - Sunandha Ragunathan
Director's Note
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