Jul 01 2022 to Jul 01 2022 7:30 p.m.

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Where

Jagriti Theatre

Jagriti Theatre, Varthur Rd, Near Adarsh Palm Meadows, Ramagondanahalli, Whitefield 560066

Event Description

Dance Like a Man is a two-act stage play written by Sahitya Akademi Award winner Mahesh Dattani. The story revolves around three generations, their personal ambition, sacrifices, struggle, and internal conflict. Each character deals with their own unique experiences, as the play delves into the human psyche and nuances of human emotion. Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, ageing Bharatnatyam dancers, are engaged in finding a substitute mridangam player to accompany their daughter Lata at her performance at a high-profile dance festival. Lata, in the meantime, nervously awaits the meeting between her parents and Viswas, the young man she wishes to marry. When the four meet, and in the conversations and discussions that follow, the fissures in the relationship between Jairaj and Ratna begin to explode into high-strung battles which lead back to their own youth and the tragedy that lies at the heart of their discord. The younger couple have their own issues to contend with: the obvious mismatch between the two sets of parents, the arguments over Lata’s career as a dancer after marriage and most unsettling of all, Lata’s attempt to balance her parents’ ambition with her own needs and desires.