Event Info
- Language: Non Verbal
- City / State: Thoudam Victor
- Directed By: Thoudam Victor And Bimal Subedi
- Produced By: Akhoka Theatre and Serendipity Arts
The Departed Dawn
The Departed Dawn is influenced by the forcefully displaced global refugee crisis that takes references from the plight of the Lhotsampas, the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees. The play begins with a journey that seeks a place called home and slowly delves into the process of building a conducive environment through hardship and struggle. Eventually, a home is born only to confront a time when it faces sinister external forces again. The failure to defend one’s home forces its inhabitants out of it, leaving them prey to brute force. At life’s crossroads, when memories are overwhelming, the idea of returning home becomes impossible as everything has been burned to ashes.
The Departed Dawn is influenced by the forcefully displaced global refugee crisis that takes references from the plight of the Lhotsampas, the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees. The play begins with a journey that seeks a place called home and slowly delves into the process of building a conducive environment through hardship and struggle. Eventually, a home is born only to confront a time when it faces sinister external forces again. The failure to defend one’s home forces its inhabitants out of it, leaving them prey to brute force. At life’s crossroads, when memories are overwhelming, the idea of returning home becomes impossible as everything has been burned to ashes.
CAST & CREW LIST -
PERFORMERS ON STAGE: VICTOR THOUDAM, RAJPRITAM LOUSHIGAM, SAPAM SUNANDA, LALISH HANJABAM, SAIKHOM BITAR MEITEI
MUSIC DIRECTION AND SOUND DESIGNER: KHUMANTHEM NGANTHOILEIMA
ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGNER: NINGOMBAM JOHNSON
PERCUSSIONIST: RK UPENDRO
LIGHT: LAISHRAM IBOCHOUBA SINGH
DESIGN: BIMAL SUBEDI
CONCEPT AND DIRECTION: THOUDAM VICTOR AND BIMAL SUBEDI
The Departed Dawn attempts to explore the correlation between the displaced body and space. It tries to explore the physical vocabularies of the body in adverse times and situations. When your home becomes a fragmented, disjointed image and you are unable to put the pieces back together, the displaced body becomes a reference for oppression. The performance tries to explore, through the lines and curves of the body, when a body is displaced without a border or a destination. It seeks two different texts: the spoken and the physical, and the juxtaposition of these two to create a third text. The Departed Dawn is a creative response to a time when we are constantly living in an environment where violence has become a normal and regular phenomenon.