Jan 25 2024 to Jan 25 2024 7 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Duration: 65 minutes | English William Shakespeare continues to fascinate scholars all over the world even after four and a half centuries. Though we know very little about his wife, Anna Hathaway, most Shakespearean scholars (mostly male) have been rather unkind to her and portrayed her as a rather shrewish, unpleasant woman simply because she was eight years older than the bard, and because Shakespeare left her to go to London just a couple of years after marriage. Anna has been seen as the role model for most of the negative female characters created by Shakespeare. Did Anna seduce an innocent, teenage Shakespeare and force him into marriage? Was this why Shakespeare used the first opportunity to leave her and run off to London? How did Anna Hathaway bring up three children and manage to live alone for over 30 years without a trace of scandal? It’s time we heard her side of the story! Shakespeare’s Wife is a creative exploration that delves into Shakespeare’s life from the perspective of his wife. Drawing inspiration from Robert Nye’s novel Mrs. Shakespeare and the bard’s own sonnets, and bolstered by insights from Germaine Greer’s well-researched Shakespeare’s Wife, this play offers a window into the societal frameworks and the position of women in Elizabethan England. It’s a narrative that seeks to intertwine historical context with a unique, personal viewpoint, shedding light on the lesser-known aspects of Shakespeare’s era. Credits: Kannada Script: Uday Itagi Design & Direction: Dr. Vishwaraj Patil Sets & Props: Vishwanath Mandi Costumes: Mangala N, Shilpa Sound: Gajanana T Naik Lights: Muddanna Rattehalli Make-up: Ramakrishna Kannarapadi Stage Management : Gautham Upadhya Translated and Performed by Laxmi Chandrashekar The Kannada version of the performance will be staged at 4:00 pm, earlier in the same day. Performer Laxmi Chandrashekar Translator & Actor Laxmi has worked with well-known theatre directors and has presented her bi-lingual solo performances ‘Hennallave’/‘Just a Woman’ and ‘Singarevva mattu Aramane’/ ‘Singarevva and the Palace’ at numerous Theatre Festivals, universities and conferences on women’s issues within the country and abroad. Other solo plays, Laxmi has scripted, produced and acted in are ‘Eddelu’,‘Medea’, ‘Kittalemane Kaveri’/ ‘Kaveri of Kittale Villa’ and ‘Lady Minus Macbeth’. Laxmi is the founder and Managing Trustee of ‘Kriyative Theatre’, an organisation devoted to wholesome, artistic and socially relevant theatre.