Day 7

8 April 2016
Friday

Prithvi Theatre

The team of the play for the day had arrived all the way from Bangalore. It was a big day for PlayPen, the production house behind the play because it was opening two new plays in two different cities on the very same day. Besides Flypaper Trap which featured at Writers' Bloc 4, the group also opened DREAMERS at Jagriti in Bangalore. Flypaper Trap dealt with the subject of the impact religion, discrimination and hatred can have on an innocent mind. Both the shows of the play were well-received.
The music performer of the day was Mansi Multani, amking her solo singing debut but already circled with fans. She entranced the Prithvi Courtyard with her voice.
The Art exhibit remained a favorite on the 7th day as well.

Play of the Day

‘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

7:00 pm

9:30 pm

Rs. 300

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

Also in the day,

Stories Beyond the Stage

Art Exhibition

To know more about the Artists, click here

Singer Songwriter of the day

Mansi Multani

Actor, singer and overall performance addict, Mansi Multani has been a part of several theatre productions such as Atul Kumar's Piya Behrupiya, Sunil Shanbag's Stories in a Song, Gagan Riar's Ishq Aaha and Rajat Kapoor's What is Done is Done to name a few. The first of which, Piya Behrupiya opened at The Globe Theatre in London for the Cultural Olympics in 2012 and has now crossed 140 shows and been performed all over the world from The Shake Nice Festival in France to The Santiago A'Mil Theatre Festival in South America. She has also acted in docu-dramas on television and comedy sketches on YouTube with All India Bakchod. Singing has always been her passion and now an integral part of her work given the musicals she performs in.

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