Girish Karnad's
BALI
Hindi 60 Min | First Staged In 2013
Drawing from an ancient Kannada epic, Girish Karnad’s Bali examines the complexity of the man-woman relationship, within and outside marriage. While looking at it through the lenses of caste and creed, it juxtaposes these relationships with the struggle between two religions. Based on the system of ‘View-Points’ as proposed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, our staging of Bali uses the grammar of movement and physical theatre, trying to capture the psychological and emotional spaces of its characters. It is an attempt to interrogate what the term ‘bali’ means to us today. How violence in its many forms has become part of our day to day life. Isn’t the act of sacrifice, an act of violence? Thus, by comparing and contrasting, the play questions why such acts of violence find validation in the name of religion, tradition and culture.
ORIGINAL CAST
Manhaout – Rahul Nigam / Prashant Sharma
Queen – Vaishali Chakravarty / Momita Jaisi
King – Shashwat Srivastava / Rahul Nigam
Queen Mother – Anuradha Vyas / Vaishali Chakravarty
Chorus – Ankit Jain, Sanjay Yadav, Suraj Kandpal, Yudishthir Singh, Nitesh Raj, Vishwajeet Rao/ Rashmi Mann, Ananya Nanda
ORIGINAL CREW
Light Design – Rajesh Singh/ Priyanka
Sound Design – Shashwat Srivastava
Hindi Adaptation – Shashwat Srivastava
Communication Design – Sarbajit Sarbajana
Movement Design – Niranjani Iyer, Vaishali Chakravarty
Design & Direction – Aditi Biswas
