On June 11 and 12, the city plays host to two of the newest plays at Writers' Bloc 4.

Flypaper Trap (English)
3:30pm
7:30pm
Rs. 200
Playwright
Swati Simha
Directors
Ashish Sen and Niranjan Gokhale
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?
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

“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.
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
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

Director's Note
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