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

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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 terms, travel on her terms, and 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 on a journey, also their own, of emotions, opinions, and questioning, of the 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 longer occupies a human body. Interestingly, other meanings of the word are tear, split, shred, break, scratch, and 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 restlessness and releasing it. It opens up an individual’s possibilities of living, where the focus is not on the final product but rather on the person living in that process. This piece evolved through my quest in seeking a unique form and content in performance, space, and the actor-spectator relationship.

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, and acting trainer.

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