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This theatre piece explores feminist voices in India’s epics, Western classics
Updated On: 01 July, 2023 08:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Suprita Mitter
Abhishek Majumdar’s concert theatre piece explores the existence, or the lack of it, of feminist voices in India’s epics and classics from the West
Stills from the play
Why did Desdemona die in William Shakespeare’s Othello? How did it happen? A musical play called Desdemona Roopakam, directed by Abhishek Majumdar examines the answer to these questions, along with putting the spotlight on feminist narratives within Shakespeare’s Othello and traditional Indian mythologies. Conceived just before the outbreak of the pandemic, the play is performed by classical musicians MD Pallavi and Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy.
“Ranga Shankara in Bengaluru has an initiative called ‘Play the Play’, through which they commission work and support the arts. I had been in talks with them and I informed them that I wanted to do something with the idea of the missing women in the epics. During the pandemic, reports from many places stated that women experienced the pandemic very differently from how men did. That’s when I got in touch with Bindhu, Veena (Appiah) and the rest of the team,” Majumdar tells us. Apart from Majumdar, the play has been devised and written by Irawati Karnik, Pallavi, Veena Appiah, Narayanaswamy and Nikhil Nagaraj.
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