Updated On: 06 September, 2013 03:56 AM IST | | Kanika Sharma
South African director Ya l Farber has made heads turn with her critically acclaimed play, Nirbhaya, based on the eponymous December 16 Delhi gang rape case. It recently won The Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Kanika Sharma speaks to producer-actor Poorna Jagannathan, via an email interview on how her initiative has stirred international audiences with Farber's de facto play
Tell us about the title of the play. How did it figure as a story that you wanted to do?
The play is a direct, theatrical response to the young Delhi girl’s brutal rape and subsequent death. When she died, for me personally, the hope was replaced by grief and anger. And, I wasn’t only raging against the rapists; I was raging against every person who didn’t stop for her when she was thrown out of the bus and laid on the road, the policemen who didn’t want to carry her to a vehicle because she was covered in blood; the hospital staff who took their time attending to her…everyone. But at some point, I realised the silences that I had kept and that we keep as a society make us deeply complicit in manifesting this sort of violence.
