Aasakta presents "NECROPOLIS" | 30th Oct | 9:30 pm | Bharat Natya Mandir, Pune
Ashish Mehta
presents
NECROPOLIS
PUNE PREMIERE
30th Oct | 9:30 pm | Bharat Natya Mandir
Tickets available at the venue from tomorrow onwards
SYNOPSIS: This new piece from Aasakta is a theatrical presentation of an article by renowned playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar. This article titled Necropolis had appeared in a magazine a few years ago. In his visit to Pakistan, Mr. Elkunchwar went on to visit Makli (near Karachi), the world heritage town of tombs. The article is the outcome of the psychological movement witnessed by Elkunchwar in his trip in the arid town of the dead from the Sindh region.Necropolis, beginning as a plain, dry narrative, steadily progresses to unfold a kaleidoscopic memoir of the playwright in an autobiographical manner. Sometimes it takes you to the emotional landscape of the mind and at others it talks to you candidly about past events and people. Three actors unfold the entire spectrum before us in the theatrical presentation.
This is not a conventional drama piece nor is it an abstract representation of the article. The tone and narrative style of ''reading an article'' is maintained throughout the performance and yet several interactions take place to depict scenes from past, present and in the virtual space of the mind or the imagination. The human subconscious often serves as a sort of burial ground. However, things, events, feelings and people buried in the subconscious sleep there alive. A trigger of some kind brings them forth and we revisit them.
The playwright's visit to the city of dead provides such a trigger to his past buried in his subconscious and a surreal mixture of emotions, events and conversations emerges.In this sense, Elkunchwar's visit to the necropolis of Makli becomes a surreal and metaphorical experience and this is what we see and experience in Aasakta's stage presentation "Necropolis".
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