Sep 16 2025 to Sep 16 2025 7 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Sita steps into the spotlight.

Glitch in the Myth reimagines one of mythology’s most revered women, not as a symbol, but as a person. From her playful childhood to the royal court, the exile in the forest to her final, enigmatic disappearance. This is Sita as you’ve rarely seen her: present, powerful, and full of unanswered questions.

Winner of the Thespo 25 Awards for Outstanding New Writing and Production Design, and the Pearl Padamsee Award for Acting, Glitch in the Myth blends mythology with rebellion to uncover the woman behind the legend.

Through music, dance, poetry, and sharp flashes of humour, the performance invites you to journey beyond the familiar. Who is responsible for her fate? Who were her allies? 

And will she ever return?

Cast and crew:
Written, Directed and Performed: Anoushka Zaveri
Rhythm, Vocals and Music Direction Maahi Zaveri
Production Managers: Tanish Jacob-Rego and Gargi Datar
Light Design and Operation: Adi Shastri and Prerana
Dramaturgical Support: Meghana AT
Visual Identity: Tamanna Rajabali
Publicity Assistant: Yashit Jain

This performance is supported by Spotlight Forum, an initiative of Integral Arts Foundation, focused on the performing arts.

Speakers

Anoushka Zaveri
Writer, Dancer & Performer
Anoushka Zaveri is a writer, dancer, and performer from Mumbai. She began her theatre career with Thespo India, a national-level youth theatre movement. A Bharatnatyam dancer with 10+ years of learning & performing experience, she employs movement-based techniques to share contemporary stories. Her multidisciplinary play, ‘Glitch in the Myth’, won the Pearl Padamsee Award for Outstanding Actor Female, the Thespo 25 Award for Outstanding Production Design, as well the award for Outstanding New Writing. It has been invited to perform at the international Serendipity Arts Festival 2024 in Goa, amongst other prestigious platforms. Anoushka also works as an artist in Mumbai-based productions: tafreehwale’s ‘I Killed My Mother/It Wasn’t My Fault’, director Tanvi Shah’s experimental ‘Unshared Childhoods’, and most recently, Faezeh Jalali’s farcical ‘Runaway Brides’. When she is not on stage, Anoushka dabbles in theatre production and continues her rigorous training in classical dance.

Maahi Milan Zaveri
Rhythm, Vocals & Music Direction
Maahi Milan Zaveri is a dedicated Hindustani classical vocalist with over a decade of training under gurus like Shri Nishad Bakre. A Sangeet Visharad from Akhil Bhartiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, she also trains in tabla and playback singing. Maahi has earned national accolades and scholarships, including from Indian Oil Corporation and Smt. Rekha Date Memorial Trust. She actively promotes classical music through performances at baithaks, cultural festivals like Mumbai Green Raga, and with organizations such as Tender Roots and Banyan Tree. Her versatile voice features in theatrical productions, short films, and collaborations with artists like playback singer Sanjeevani Bhelande.

Meghana AT
Dramaturgical Support
Meghana AT is a theatre artist/addict, who has been exploring multiple roles in the field since 2012. In this time she has worked as an actor, writer, director, producer, production manager, teacher, dramaturg – with more experiments to come. She has a Master’s in Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy from The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She is the founder of tafreehwale, a theatre company engaged in original, political, and playful theatre making and training.

Prerana
Light Design & Operation
‘कला और काल का एक संबंध है की दोनों का होना निचत है, जहां काल सबको क्षणक बनाता है वहीं कला उसको अमर.’ Prerana has been doing theatre for some years now. She has done Backstage, Management, Production, Lights, Writing, Translation, Direction and Acting for various plays. Worked with talented theatre makers in Delhi and Bombay.

Adi Shastri
Light Design & Operation
Adi Shastri has studied film and television at the Mumbai University and has been working in theatre for the past 10 years. He is a lighting designer and operator who has worked with QTP, Fats the Arts, Akvarious, Aarambh Mumbai, Studio Tamaasha, Thespo (15-25), D for Drama and Cinematograph, etc. An aspiring director and actor, he is also exploring filmmaking.

Gargi Datar
Production Manager
Gargi Datar is an actor, Kathak dancer, and educator whose artistic journey began at the age of six. A graduate of the Drama School Mumbai, she has performed across film, television, and stage, with notable appearances in Modern Love (Amazon Prime), Gutar Gu (MiniTV), and the Marathi feature Lek Asavi Tar Ashi. Trained in Kathak under Guru Shilpa Datar, Gargi likes to weave her theatre training and Kathak training to bring new work to the audience. She wrote and worked in her own production “Who’s afraid of the Naayika?” – winner of the DSFM Niloufer Sagar Alumni Production Grant. As a theatre educator, she designs and facilitates arts-based learning experiences across schools and corporate settings.

Tanish Jacob-Rego
Production Manager
Tanish Jacob-Rego is an enthusiastic, emerging theatremaker from Mumbai. A graduate of mass communication from St Xaviers College, he started his theatre journey with ANK’s ‘Akal ki Pudiya’, and gradually discovered the fascinating madness of production while working with Thespo India, Tamaasha Theatre and Alienstar Collective.