Event Info
- Language: Non-Verbal
- City / State: Kerala
- Directed By: Sunil Kumar S
- Produced By: The Mimers
Maze
Maze delves into the liminal world between memories and reality
Maze explores the relationship between a servant and an old man who are connected through a web of memories and realities. The servant is the primary care giver of the old man, sometimes even pretending to be his wife in order to coax him to eat. The sight of the servant clothed in his wife’s attire rekindles the old man’s longings even as recognition of his smell brings him back to reality. Thus, lines between reality and memory constantly blur and in that unreal space, there are moments in which both of them find happiness and comfort. Finally it is revealed that the old man was a memory of the servant whose existence is only possible with that memory.
ABIN DAVIS
Music Direction and Execution
ANOOP KV
Light Design and Execution
SARATH KUAR MR
Art, Design and Execution
MR. MANU M K
Music Direction and Execution
AKSHAI K A
Music Direction and Execution
CAST
Midhun M P
Old Man
Rakesh P
Slave
CREW
Vipin Kumar
Makeup
Vyshakh Krishna
Stage Manager
Sharon Shaju, Akhil Vijayan & Dazil Devis
Technical Support
Sunil Kumar S
Design
Prasobh K. J
Team Manager
Anoop KV
- Best Light Design
Sarath Kuar MR
- Best Stage Design
Mr. Manu M K
- Best Innovative Sound Design
Akshai K A
- Best Innovative Sound Design
Abin Davis
- Best Innovative Sound Design
Maze explores the fact that there is no actual beginning and no actual end to what we call life. Can we consider death as an end even though the dead continue to live within the minds of the living? Memory and reality can’t be separated and it therefore raises the question, what is real? Every relationship creates a circle from which the process of ‘coming out’ or ‘leaving’ is impossible. In this play, the old man and the servant create a space within their relationship that even questions the material existence of each other. This interlocked space makes it difficult to have an individual existence. The old man continues to live in the memory of the servant and to an extent, it is the memory of the old man that makes the servant live in his solitude.