May 01 2022 to May 01 2022 3:30 p.m.

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Where

Ranga Shankara

36/2, 8th Cross Rd, R K Colony, 2nd Phase, J. P. Nagar 560078

Event Description

'Nava' - in collaboration with Aravani Art Project is back at the Ranga Shankara on 1st May (3:30 PM & 7:30 PM). Nava explores the stories of 9 urban transwomen through the 9 rasas. The play is funded by the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut and other partners. It is supported by the Ranga Shankara and India Foundation for the Arts. We would like to invite you to our performance along with your friends, family and colleagues. Please help us spread the word!

“…highly inventive. Brave, raw and away from all clichés” – Mumbai Theatre Guide
"…a never-before freshness and an abundance of new expression” - Vikram Phukan, News9, Mumbai.
"…I have never enjoyed being laughed at so much. What fine singers, dancers and actors they are!” – Shanta Gokhale, Theatre critic, Writer                                                             
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About the Play: ‘Nava’ tells the stories of 9 urban transwomen through the 9 rasas (Navarasa). In this performance, the 9 transwomen, who have never been on stage before, bring their bodies, voices and stories, deliberately silenced and wilfully ignored to reclaim their rightful place – the centrestage. The performers sing, dance, laugh, regale, provoke and defy fixed notions of what constitutes the Navarasa and who can be its Nayakis. Chandri’s Adhbuta is about how she wore a saree for the first time. Shanti flips our understanding of Bhibatsa with a story of how she crawled through a sewage pipe to come out clean on the other side. Prarthana tells you her secret to Shrungara, Thara makes a journey to meet her son and discovers Karuna, while Swetha explores a memory of her childhood friend.

Tickets available at: www.bookmyshow.com | Rs 200 | Kannada (With English Subtitles)