| The Park’s
The Other Festival - 2003
Music. Dance. Drama. Art. You. The Chinmaya
Heritage Centre, Chennai
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Pritham K Chakravarthy (Chennai) “Vellavi” - Solo Theater
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Pritham K Chakravarthy is a playwright, director, performer, film critic and activist from Chennai. Recent performances include: Meendum meendum, Surya Mukam and her own solo piece about aravanis: Nirvanam. The latter has toured India, the USA under a Fulbright Fellowship and 2002 Edinburgh International Festival. She is presently working on Orientations, a theatre production by Border Crossings, which opened in October 2003 at Watermans in London, UK. This piece will tour the UK and India in 2004-05. |
"Vellavi", an autobiographical narrative about a traditional dhobi woman, was documented by Parthibaraja, coordinated by A Mangai and produced by Voicing Silence of M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation.
This single
woman piece covering the socio-economic life of a traditional dhobi in
remote Tamilnadu was premiered at Dalit Kalai Vizha in 1998 and has traveled
to a variety of audiences since then.
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