Aug 26 2025 to Aug 26 2025 7 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Four participants enter a show with the promise of their stories being heard. Instead they encounter a voice whose friendly tone quickly turns intrusive and sinister.

Talk to Me brings together a deaf performer with non-sign language artists from varied fields, including filmmaking, painting, and design, to craft a language beyond speech. It blends personal, playful pop culture elements, examining the diverse ways we communicate our stories. How do we connect beyond words? At a time where words are excessively used as rhetoric by authoritarian figures, this show asks if we can find a more humane, collective voice.

Credits:
Conceived and Directed by: Anuja Ghosalkar
Created and Performed by: Amaldev PR, Bhavana Rajendran, Gavati Wad, Nidhi Mariam Jacob
Assistant Direction: Gavati Wad
Technical Design: Aliasger Dhariwala
Light Design: Vikrant Thakar
ISL Interpretation: Emma, Nida Fatima A Bhavnagary

Talk to Me is produced by the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru, and was originally commissioned for MAP’s annual Beyond Theory conference.

Cast & Crew

Amaldev P R
Performer
Amaldev, a deaf artist from Kerala and a BFA graduate from NISH. He discovered his passion for Visual Vernacular (VV) by chance and grew into a professional VV performer and theatre artist. Amaldev uses his craft to showcase the beauty of deaf culture and storytelling through performance.

Anuja Ghosalkar
Concept & Direction
Anuja Ghosalkar is a performance maker and founder of Drama Queen, a documentary theatre company in India. Her multidisciplinary work combines performance, visual arts, and critical inquiry, focusing on little histories and counter-narratives.

Ghosalkar’s work has been showcased globally, including at the University of Oxford, Harvard, and Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer. She’s collaborated with award-winning companies like Gob Squad Collective and published writings in Routledge and Bloomsbury. Her latest book is Documentary Theatre in India: Assembling Publics, Performing Politics.

Bhavana Rajendran
Performer
​​Bhavana Rajendran is a Bangalore based theatre actor and practitioner.  When not on stage, she takes theatre classes for children. She is also a certified counselling therapist.

Gavati Wad
Performer & Assistant Director
Gavati is an artist/filmmaker based in Bangalore, India. She primarily works with 16mm celluloid and experiments with analog and digital technologies to generate sound and image. She is interested in questions of identity surrounding gender, the domestic home environment, and the nation-state. Her cross-disciplinary practice responds to tropes present in commercial media practices such as photo studios, television broadcasting, and political propaganda through film, performance, and illustration. Gavati graduated with an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of Arts in 2022. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Experimenta India.

Nidhi Mariam Jacob
Performer
Nidhi Mariam Jacob is an independent artist, muralist  from Bangalore, India. Her stunning floral paintings are infused with the rich memories of her childhood, of taking long evening walks with her grandfather, the scent of orange Champakam and Jasmine flowers, or watching her mother tend to her garden. A Haliconia bunch, wild Lantana, or Banyan tree all lend their influence to the magical realism of her inspired forest creations, her Fantasy Garden series. Her work investigates the beauty of nature’s evolution – the continual cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Being inside nature – surrounded by it – and feeling close to the earth’s soil is a grounding force in both her life and work.

Aliasger Dhariwala
Technical Design
Aliasger Dhariwala is a visual storyteller primarily specialising in cinematography and photography. He has an eye for contextualizing cultures, traditions and nuances into images of a contemporary India. Ali has worked in a number of mediums – from shooting 35mm and Medium Format film to Digital. He is also a trained documentary and corporate filmmaker.

Emma
ISL Interpreter
Emma is a Bangalore based sign language professional committed to accessibility and inclusive communication.

Nida Fatima A Bhavnagary
ISL Interpreter
Nida is an ASLI-accredited Indian Sign Language (ISL) Interpreter. She works with organizations such as EnAble India, Museum of Art and Photography, YWCA, and WinVinaya Foundation in Bangalore. She has contributed through video captioning to projects like Deaf Women Too and interpreted for high-impact events such as Job Fairs, NASSCOM Conferences, GHCI (Grace Hopper Celebration India), Queer Fests, as well as theatre productions and open mic shows tailored for deaf audiences. Proficient in English, Kannada, Hindi and Urdu, Nida is committed to bridging communication gaps, fostering inclusion, and amplifying deaf voices across all walks of life.

Vikrant Thakar
Light Design
Vikrant Thakar first forayed into theatre in his college years in 2007. In 2009 he graduated from Fergusson College, Pune & since then he has been active in theatre in the capacity of a stage light designer and operator, a director and an actor. He has been associated with various theatre groups and dance companies in India. He has directed 4 plays in Marathi. His current production as director is Raja Nanga-dhadanga hai in Hindi produced by D for Drama Mumbai. He has been a part of more than 50 theatre productions across India as a lighting designer. He has also been awarded the Vinod Doshi Fellowship for performing arts conferred by Sahitya Rangbhoomi Pratishthan for the year 2016-17. He bagged the best light design award at Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards 2023 for the play Hunkaro.