Mar 20 2025 to Mar 20 2025 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Language: English

What is freedom? How free is a woman? Is she free to live on her own terms, to travel on her own terms, to be herself, by herself? In Restlessness In Pieces a  woman seeks her path, within her restricted life, tied to her husband, by first convincing her husband to take her with him on his work related travel. Travelling is her dream. Through her  travel she grows and frees herself. And, this is her celebration!

An interactive solo, RIP is a woman’s personal, and political, narration full of satire and humor. It takes the audience into a journey, also their own, of emotions, opinions and questioning, of everyday and taken for granted conventionality of women’s lives, in individual, social, cultural and political milieus.

Director’s Note

RIP (Restlessness in Pieces) is an abbreviation used to wish well for the soul that no more occupies a human body. Interestingly, other meanings of the word are tear, split, shred, break, scratch, cleave. I stick to RIP as ‘restlessness in pieces’, a contrary context to its usual meaning. The performance is an inquiry into Rest in Peace itself.

For a body that goes through so much restlessness in life, both within and outside in the world, how can there be Rest in Peace after death? Why can we not rest in peace while we are alive? How? By inquiring into our own restlessness, and releasing it out. It opens up an individual’s possibilities of living, where the focus is not on final product but rather on the person living in that process. This piece evolved
through my personal quest in seeking for a unique form and content in performance, space and actor-spectator relationship.

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Artiste

Savita Rani
Writer, Performer & Director
Savita Rani (PhD), graduated from National School of Drama, New Delhi with specialisation in acting in 2008. At present she works as an independent performer, researcher, writer, director, acting trainer.

Her practice is inclusive, cross disciplinary, self-reflective and introspective in nature. She is a grantee of Serendipity Arts Foundation theatre grant project 2020-21.