Mumbai’s Tafreehwale brings its climate-centric play Fever Dream to Bengaluru this month

The clime situation lone seems to beryllium worsening arsenic clip goes by, and bringing this situation to beingness by mode of a satirical play is Tafreehwale, a Mumbai-based theatre company. Titled Fever Dream, the play follows Viren, Shree, and Deepak who transportation an innovation connected a tech endowment show. A collaboration with biology and societal justness start-up Asar Social Impact Advisors and Climate Culture Collective, the play sees the trio pitching ‘Cool Pods’ that tin marque the satellite ‘a better, cooler place’ and the challenges they look on the way. 

Meghana AT, the play’s manager and laminitis of Tafreehwale, says it was earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile Brikesh Singh from Asar approached her, asking if she could publication a play astir rising temperatures. “I jumped astatine the opportunity.”

Most of us, the 29-year-old theatre artiste says, prosecute with clime done a factual/news-based lens. “We work of floods, drought, utmost temperature, and sometimes adjacent acquisition it ourselves. However, the clime situation is inactive mostly seen arsenic a aboriginal issue, oregon 1 that affects others, not us.”

The team’s volition was to make a play, Meghana says, “that tin assistance radical spot themselves arsenic profoundly implicated successful the clime crisis, but besides arsenic a cardinal portion of the clime solution”.

She explains however making theatre is ever a process of putting retired 100 fires. “An apt metaphor for a play astir the climate. The biggest challenge, however, was the script, arsenic we were determined to equilibrium the informational load with the amusement and storytelling that is astatine the halfway of the story.”

It was important for Meghana to underline the seriousness of rising temperatures portion keeping the code of the play airy and satirical. “I powerfully judge that the playfulness of the code tin let america to prosecute much profoundly with hard topics, and I anticipation we person struck that balance.”

While this play is being staged successful Bengaluru for now, the squad has plans to instrumentality it to different cities. “The play is acceptable successful a world TV show, making it a abstraction we are each somewhat acquainted with. The challenges the characters look are ubiquitous crossed our country: of balancing the aged and the new, of being prepared for incoming blistery days, of attempting to marque thing of oneself, of trying to make thing new. We deliberation this communicative is profoundly relatable and we anticipation to question acold with it.”

On October 17 astatine Bangalore International Centre, Domlur, and connected October 18 astatine Courtyard Koota, Kengeri. Tickets connected in.bookmyshow.com