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What makes the play Y unsocial is that it does not person a “story”. The communicative is built by a clump of actors, who devised their ain expression, done months of rehearsals. A devised carnal theatre work, Y traces the rhythm of beingness done the memories quality bodies garbage to fto spell of. Through raw, provocative movements, the actos attack analyzable themes that specify the quality condition. Growth, interruption down, healing and haunting signifier portion of the play that raises questions astir the self.
An open-ended portion
Director of the play, Remith Ramesh says his squad of actors research adjacent abstract emotions with practised ease. “This is not a narrative-driven play. It is an open-ended piece. We are not drafting conclusions here,” Remith says. While touching upon the thought of the self, it besides discusses the conception of location — whether it is simply a sanctuary of bid oregon a cauldron of suffocation and trauma, Remith adds.
The enactment for the play started successful July this year. Completely devised by the actors themselves, the process of making it was arsenic overmuch amusive arsenic it was challenging, says Remith. Y is built from the idiosyncratic stories of the ensemble. Stories and experiences that are not unsocial to them — of pain, struggle, inheritance, and resilience. “It is not casual to decribe the process of devised theatre,” says histrion Garggi Ananthan, who is portion of the cast. “Through respective rehearsals, we arrived astatine a communal ground,” she adds.
The 5 actors, from assorted parts of India, person contributed arsenic to the piece. The squad developed gibberish arsenic the connection of communication. “We didn’t privation to bounds the audience’s imaginativeness successful immoderate way, and connection tin beryllium limiting, erstwhile you deliberation astir it,” says Remith.
The title, Y, too is unfastened to interpretation. It could beryllium a forked way suggesting assorted possibilities successful life, a gathering constituent oregon a question. A Koodiyattam artiste and a theatre practitioner, Remith incorporates modern techniques and pedagogy into his method.
Produced by Aal Space Studio, the euphony for the play has been composed by Sooraj Santhosh. Apart from Garggi, the formed includes Jijivisha Akshay, Kewal Karthik, Mallika M and Nikita Thube. Sandeep Yadav is the accumulation manager and airy designer.
Y was staged astatine Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi, Thrissur, connected December 4.
