6 months ago
1
“Theatre is not a privilege of a definite class,” says Sujatha Balakrishnan, founder, Theatre for Change, a not-for-profit theatre corporate that she founded successful 2015. To commemorate the corporate completing a decade, the squad is staging a play Kaapis, Kryptos and Chaos aboriginal this period that looks astatine the chaos of relationships successful the integer age.
Set successful a elder assisted surviving facility, the play written and directed by Shilpa Bansal showcases “an entertaining, engaging and enriching speech betwixt grandparents and their visiting grandchildren”, says Sujatha.
This relationship, says the 68-year-old, is connected the verge of collapsing owed to taste shifts and technological advancement. “As a psychologist, I consciousness arsenic a society, we request to beryllium much delicate to the affectional needs of the seniors. A beardown societal and built situation is important for the seniors surviving alone, and this calls for an urgent request to plan multigenerational spaces that volition supply the level for shared activities that fosters empathy and communal respect. Of course, this tin beryllium achieved lone done a systemic organization change.”
A snapshot from the rehearsals | Photo Credit: Amalanath Benedict
She believes this light-hearted intergenerational play volition reiterate the worth of a precise peculiar relationship. “Nobody wants a rant oregon a judgemental instrumentality connected issues. The play is open-ended and aimed astatine sparking a speech connected the larger issue. We are conscionable placing facts connected the table, truthful audiences indispensable travel with an unfastened mind. We anticipation to prosecute the assemblage to crook into agents of change,” explains Sujatha, who has been staging plays connected culturally stigmatised topics for respective years.
“Through our journey, we’ve been fortunate to person been joined by transgender activists, the moving class, and different subaltern groups who person lent their dependable and enactment to our collective,” she says, adding that each merchantability proceeds spell to the NGO Diya Ghar.
On November 29, 6.30 p.m. astatine The Bangalore Room, Indiranagar. For tickets, telephone 9845370431
