Aug 23 2025 to Aug 23 2025 7 p.m.

Price: 350 Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

This play is an actor’s enquiry into her own body vocabulary through inhabiting a character like Shoorpanakha, the most marginalised one in The Ramayana epic. Who is she beyond the mutilation? Can we reimagine new dimensions for this character? Along with this enquiry is a parallel search by the actor herself to go beyond her existing performative body. Will inhabiting the character of Shoorpanakha also help her to break the shackles of a physical idiom imposed on her by her specific cultural context? The performer travels through different performance traditions such as Kattaikkuttu, Koodiyattam, Mizhavu, Oppari and Parai. Will these forms help the actor to manifest the character? Will the character influence these forms? In the end, what's the performance body the actor will end up with? These questions drive this solo forward.

About Parshathy J Nath:

Parshathy J Nath is a theatre artist based in Bangalore. Over the last 10 years, she has worked with some of the most well known theater directors in South India including Prasanna Ramaswamy, Rajiv Krishnan, Vinay Kumar, Nimmy, Sharanya Ramprakash, Aruna Ganesh Ram, Koumarane Valavane and Sanjeeva Suvarna. An INLAKS Theatre Award Winner in 2021, she has trained in different theatre schools including Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research (1 year for theatre art research), Ninasam (acting, costumes, stagecraft) and Natanakairali, Irinjalakkuda – Navarasa Sadhana (3 phases, 1.5 months). 

Cast and Crew:

Created and Performed by Parshathy J Nath 

Chief Mentor: Sharanya Ramprakash 

Script & dialogues: Parshathy J Nath 

Translation support: Dhanya Gopi (Grandmother's Story) 

Creative Support: Kapila Venu, Ajithlal Sivalal and Fawas Ameer Hamsa 

Trainers of various forms: 

Koodiyattam: Aparna Nangiar

Mizhavu: Kalamandalam Rajeevan and Kalamandalam Harihara Guptan 

Kattaikkuttu: P Rajagopal and Hanne M. de Bruin 

Paraiattam: Gangai master and Manimaran. 

Ghatam music: Not Limited by Time, series by TM Krishna, featuring N Guruprasad and Chandrasekara Sharma 

Mizhavu music Courtesy: Kalamandalam Rajeevan and team 

Kattaikkuttu music : Dice and Disrobing part 3 documented by Sue Rees, performed by Kattaikkuttu Sangam 

Parai music courtesy: Aaruthra Kalaikuzhu led by artiste 

Gangai Voices: P Rajagopal (Recorded) Parshathy J Nath (Live Singing) 

Songs Credit: 

Koodi Vazhvom- Composed and written by Manimaran Magizhini 

Asai Theerave- Composed by PK Boopathy and written by P Rajagopal 

Vandal Shoorpanangai- Composed and written by P Rajagopal 

Oppari: Karuniram Kondayen Paattiyaare- Composed and written by Pa. Thiruvenkatachami 

Crew: 

Light design: Subodha Subrahmanya and aPH 

Light performed by: Subodha Subrahmanya 

Sound performed by: aPH 

Costume design support: Hanne M. de Bruin 

Production Manager: Suraj Nair 

Poster Design: Arjun Nambiar

Photo courtesy (in poster): PeeVee 

Show Photography and Videography: Virginia Rodrigues 

Age 8+