ASHIMA PARTNERS TO BRING KULTAR'S MIME TO MUMBAI
To lay roses at the shrines of
Tilak Vihar"
Recently Ashima had the privilege of partnering with the team of Kultar's
Mime, to bring the untold stories of 1984 to the audience of Mumbai, as they kick-started
their India-wide tour. What took place
was a beautiful reinforcement of the cathartic power of storytelling. Read on.
Yes. This was the ethos which bound the play up. The plot has been set in New York, where a
group of Jewish Artists decides to pay a tribute to the 1903 Kishinev pogrom victims
through a reliving of the untold stories of 1984. The stories of four kids whose childhoods had
been scarred by tragedies they had never dreamt of even in their worst
nightmares.
Farfetched, you feel? Not at
all. For yes, there were wet eyes and
lumps in the throat for a few sitting in the audience. Evidently, the
performance had triggered a catharsis by the very act of representing another pain. And what further caressed the soul of those
present there, was the way these stories were strung together with poetry,
visuals, Indian classical ragas and Gurmat Sangeet. Kultar's Mime was an
experience that spoke to you in a language quite universal - the language of
pain...
Genre: Drama, Experimental
Duration: 60 minutes
Staged: March 14 & 15, 2015
Venue: Little Theatre, NCPA,
Mumbai
P.S. It was our pleasure to meet the awesome bunch of people from
Boston, who had put this up with great dedication and love - Director and
Writer duo: J Mehr Kaur & Sarbpreet Singh, Stage Manager: Adelaide Majeski,
Ally Matteodo (played Rebecca), Cat Niss (played Rachael/Rano), Christine
Scherer (played Pauline/Billoo), Ross Paul Frederick Magnant (played
Erin/Kultar), Addison Gilbert (played Jacob/Angad).
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