Wait To Be Seated by Sandbox and She She Pop explores issues beyond hospitality

What happens erstwhile 2 cultures conscionable for a sit-down meal? Wait To Be Seated by Bengaluru-based Sandbox Collective and She She Pop from Germany, is simply a accumulation that aims astatine exploring the antithetic layers and agenda, down the hospitality of these 2 antithetic cultures.

Wait To Be Seated brings to the array polished metallic and German manners, and Indian namastes and mittai.  Does a impermanent determine erstwhile it is clip to permission oregon bash the hosts person to commencement dropping cutlery with their hints? Where does 1 gully the enactment betwixt people-pleasing and politeness? Wait To Be Seated attempts to unravel these questions done a meal array dialogue, reddish carpet lawsuit and a closet afloat of apparel and bows. 

Nimi Ravindran of Sandbox Collective says, “This isn’t your accustomed play with roles, scenes oregon a script. It comprises six women coming unneurotic and playing themselves successful situations that unfold successful existent time, conscionable arsenic it does for the audience.” 

Wait To Be Seated was conceptualised erstwhile Sandbox visited Germany successful 2022 and met with She She Pop. Their conversations and amusive hangouts led them to observe however akin some collectives were successful the principles they advocated, specified arsenic quality rights, sex equality and most importantly, solidarity towards different creator and lesser privileged communities.

For Ilia Papatheodorou of She She Pop, the unquestioned “laws” of hospitality that request the hosting to beryllium done by the pistillate sex, was 1 of the reasons wherefore Wait To Be Seated came into being. “Hospitality is often a pistillate show wherever the mothers are ever expected to service astatine the eating table, whilst having nary sheet of their own,” says the artiste. 

The collectives began moving connected rehearsals earlier this year, connecting implicit zoom calls, task sheets and a peculiar Indian creation signifier that the German troupe has been practising for this performance. The squad hopes audiences would instrumentality into relationship the hard enactment enactment into the play, which to them is, “an enactment of hospitality to clasp connected to adjacent aft the curtains close”.

Wait To Be Seated will beryllium staged astatine Sabha, Bengaluru from 7pm onwards from November 28-30. Tickets starting astatine ₹300 disposable astatine sabhablr.in