Friday, 25 March 2016



After two successful runs at Prithvi Theatre and NCPA, Writers' Bloc lands in Bangalore all set to conquer Ranga Shankara!
On June 11 and 12, the city plays host to two of the newest plays at Writers' Bloc 4. 


Sat, June 11
Flypaper Trap (English)

3:30pm

7:30pm
Rs. 200

Playwright
Swati Simha

Directors
Ashish Sen and Niranjan Gokhale
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Sun, June 12
Mundhirikotte (Tamil)

3:30pm

7:30pm
Rs. 200


Playwright
Sunandha Raghunathan

Director
Anitha Santhanam

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About the plays

Flypaper Trap

‘FLYPAPER TRAP’ delves into how the rhetoric of demonizing the “other” and the language of genocide enters a young girl. As every Azan from the newly constructed mosque brews hate in the child, a forbidden relationship ensues – there’s blood on her pants, the windows are shattered, paper planes are burnt, the garden becomes a grave and there’s fire next door. But can we hear the sound of fire?



Playwright
Swati Simha

Directors
Ashish Sen and Niranjan Gokhale

Cast
Puttani: Sindhu S.
Anna: Rakesh Batra
Srini: Nakul Bhalla
Kamaal: Mikhail Sen
Mariam: Lekha Naidu
Rashid: Manosh Sengupta

Credits
Backstage: Suraksh Das
Movement: Shiva Subramanian
Language and Speech Adviser: Zafer Mohiuddin

Playwright's Note
“Flypaper Trap' is a carnivorous plant species that uses an intensely pleasant honey odour to attract its prey and then traps the insect or small animal on its lethally adhesive surface. It is a metaphor for the kind of attraction Kamal and Puttani share, not knowing who the prey is and who the predator.” - Swati Simha










Director's Note


“The images that leap out of ‘Flypaper Trap’ make it a powerful play for our times. Radicalization is making news today. But how many of us are ready to reckon with it? ‘Flypaper Trap’ compels you to take another look as it unpeels radicalization’s destructive intent.” - Ashish Sen





Mundhirikkotte

'Let's bet that I'll make friends before last period tomorrow.'
For 12 year old K.P and his mother Pavunu, Parangipettai in coastal Tamil Nadu is an unfamiliar place. As they settle in, they soon become aware of their invisibility, their precarious position and the dangers of ambition for people like them.
Mundhirikkotte asks whether one can make a right choice in a wrong world. As the lives of three different communities cross paths, each will have to make a choice that will change their lives forever.

Playwright
Sunandha Raghunathan

Director
Anitha Santhanam

Cast 
Charles Vinoth
Kalieaswari Srinivasan
Mohammed Umar. D
Niran Vikctor B
Prasanna Ramkumar .R
Vasanth Selvam

Light design: P. Vinay Chandra
Set Design: Martin Laferriere

Playwright's Note
“Mundhirikkotte literally translates to the seed of a cashew but it's used in common parlance to denote someone who is an enthu cutlet because the cashew seed, unlike other fruits, protrudes out of the fruit; so it’s a play about people like me!” - Sunandha Ragunathan











Director's Note
In Mundhirikkotte, the challenge is to allow the metaphors to emerge while staying very grounded in the actualities of the lives of the characters and their conflicts.” - Anitha Santhanam




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