Experimental play ‘Aunty Moxie Delulu’ gets ready to come to Hyderabad

When you brushwood radical oregon elder citizens talking to themselves, acting weird oregon being delusional oregon schizophrenic you deliberation astir the trauma oregon experiences that mightiness person led to the situation. Reflecting connected this societal world and hoping to gully empathy is the play Aunty Moxie Delulu to beryllium staged connected January 31 successful Hyderabad.

“We mightiness consciousness a small spot disgusted and adjacent locomotion distant from specified people. But we bash not cognize what they mightiness person gone done successful their lives. Auntie Moxie is specified a quality who has astir apt gone done hellhole and present appears delulu to a mean person. For me, it is important to gully empathy towards radical similar her,” says Ashiqa Salvan, who has not lone written and directed but besides performs successful the play.

Solo act

The enactment was commissioned by Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research to promote autarkic artists to constitute caller scripts and make performances. This 60-minute solo enactment successful English premiered successful April 2025 astatine Puducherry and since past has had stagings successful Delhi and Bengaluru including the caller Bengaluru Hubba. After Hyderabad, the play travels to Mumbai for the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, which is connected from January 31 to February 8.

At 60 Aunty Moxie oscillates betwixt revenge and forgiveness. “The quality is precise important for maine arsenic I afloat place with her.” Swinging betwixt story and reality, Ashiqa plays 4 characters, including the mythical ones — Ganga, the goddess of forgiveness, and Nemesis, a goddess of revenge from Greek mythology.

Abstract narrative

While the euphony and lights are by Kirtana Krishna and Prerana, the communicative is somewhat abstract and stories whitethorn look unconnected but escaped ends necktie up astatine the end. Ashiqa crafted Aunty Moxie quality based connected the beingness astir her and respective ongoing conflicts and wars happening successful the world. The play looks astatine characters who person nary accidental successful things but are expected to instrumentality a stand. “This wide unrest is instigated by radical who are successful power. Ordinary individuals, who privation to caput their ain concern person nary thought astir what is happening and why. It is similar a generational power wherever 1 does not cognize what is happening and wherefore you consciousness a definite mode astir immoderate radical oregon things,” she explains.

To foster empathy

Ashiqa hopes the assemblage steps into the beingness of Aunty Moxie to recognize what the quality is going done and foster empathy. “We tin beryllium a small spot empathetic amongst ourselves, due to the fact that we are each suffering successful 1 mode oregon the other.”

Although Ashiqa is simply a spot anxious astir the audience’s effect to her experimental work, she is hopeful. Based connected her past experiences of staging plays successful Hyderabad arsenic a subordinate of Adishakti Theatre Laboratory, she says, “The assemblage successful Hyderabad is lukewarm and welcoming and besides wants to person caller things successful the theatre field.”

Aunty Moxie Delulu volition beryllium staged astatine Rangbhoomi Spaces successful Gachibowli connected January 31. Tickets connected bookmyshow