Feb 27 2026 to Feb 27 2026 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

You know this story.

A death in the royal family. A ghost with demands. A protagonist tipping toward madness, or something that looks like it. Revenge as the only logical conclusion.

Put a woman in the centre. The axis shifts.

Does the ghost get believed? Does the grief get room, or a diagnosis? And what happens when the ghost doesn’t ask for revenge at all, but tells her daughter to protect herself through education?

Princess Hamlet is twenty, home from college, fluent in manga and martial arts, and entirely unprepared for what her mother’s ghost is asking of her. Adishakti’s production departs sharply from Shakespeare, and in that departure, asks what we’ve always taken for granted about grief, power, and who gets to act on either.

Written, adapted and directed by Vinay Kumar. Nimmy Raphel plays a Hamlet the original never imagined.

Part of Pravāha 2026, The Body As Space: A Journey Through The Senses. This year’s festival is built around what we hear, smell, touch, taste, and see. Eight days of multisensory experiences through classical music, contemporary dance, installations, and conversations.

Presented by:

Performers

Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research
Theatre Research & Repertory Company
Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research is a pioneering theatre research and repertory company based near Pondicherry, with over 43 years of sustained practice and 32 years of continuous work in the region. Recognised for its distinctive performance language, Adishakti brings together text, physical craft, music, and research-driven dramaturgy, drawing from Indian performance traditions, contemporary theatre methodologies, and interdisciplinary inquiry to create work that is both rooted and rigorously contemporary.

The company has performed extensively across India at major festivals including Bharat Rang Mahotsav, Serendipity Arts Festival, Tata Literature Live, Bahuroopi National Theatre Festival, and the Remembering Veenapani Festival, among many others. Internationally, Adishakti’s work has been presented at platforms such as the Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Kalaa Utsavam (Singapore), Spazio Theatre No’hma (Milan), the Nepal International Theatre Festival, and the Baltic House Theatre Festival (Russia), earning recognition for its research-intensive and embodied approach to theatre-making.

Vinay Kumar, Artistic Director of Adishakti, leads the company’s ongoing exploration of performance research and creation. A multidisciplinary theatre-maker — actor, writer, director, choreographer, composer, and light and sound designer — he is also widely respected as a teacher of performance craft, committed to transmitting Adishakti’s methodology to new generations of practitioners.