This comedy, play and low-pitched overthrows each clarification of what a lady should be by untangling a nuances of temperament by discourse and song
(From left) Kohmal Khanna, Prerna Talwar and Archana Patel on stage
It is mostly pronounced that women are difficult puzzling creatures. And that’s since a account of ‘what a lady is’ has been hijacked and differs from a truth. What afterwards is a truth? A thespian comedy and musical, Three Women, uses Rabindranath Tagore’s illusory characters — Charu, Bimala, and his sister-in-law and muse, Kadambari Devi — from a eponymous book to try this question. Written, destined and musically designed by Isheeta Ganguly, a play was innate from ponderings over women’s identity, intensity and energy to find and conclude themselves.
Isheeta Ganguly
Set in a 21st century, a play delves into a characters’ conversations as they onslaught to know their passions, doubts, conflicts, modernity, career, definitions of beauty and intensity in a face of a narratives they’ve been fed. In a approach it’s ostensible to be — women paving a approach for other women — Kadambari time-travels to accommodate Charu and Bimala, behaving as a coach to assistance them answer these questions. Ganguly’s description of a characters not usually reinvents a women though also gives them a leisure to conclude themselves. Loneliness might’ve been a thesis in Tagore’s characters though a play seeks an alternative, attributing it to a deficiency of a incomparable clarity of purpose in their lives.
While these characters were limited to their times, it’s loyal that women continue to face a same questions and issues on temperament and purpose. Speaking about a complicated contra normal debate, Ganguly expresses that it is not about one or a other, or a some-more moral choice. She continues that what’s critical is a right to select who one wants to be. Something that actor Archana Patel captures beautifully as Bimala, Ganguly notes. She adds that over a final 8 years, opposite actors have highlighted several expressions, voices and wants of women in her characters, contributing to a incomparable nuanced summary of self-identity. So what is a loyal narrative, we ask again? That is for each lady to confirm for herself.
On: Jun 23; 7 pm At G5A, Laxmi Mills Estate, Mahalaxmi West.
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Cost: Rs 1,000
