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Journey of the play

This project has been realized after a search lasting two years where the thematic interest was to look into the human need for systems (with a focus on religion), our need to be free and both their connection to our relationship with nature.

It was initiated by Vivek Vijayakumaran from Our Theatre Collective, Bangalore with a desire to collaborate with Pangambam Tyson Meitei from Kalakshetra, Manipur. Both these artists have been full-time theatre practitioners for over the last fifteen years and have also known each other for over a decade.

Keen to challenge themselves, this collaboration was informed by resisting what they already know (especially movement language) and resisting each other in the aspiration to find something that is new, exciting and meaningful in the realm of thematic exploration which formed the foundational premise. One of the ways that the approach to find new meanings has been executed is through the usage of percussion and non-percussion instruments. While the actor musician Tyson has had a long relationship with these instruments, in the instant of this exploration the instruments come to stand for attack and rigidity and reinvention

and nurture, respectively.