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When the Rainbow is Enough
Shared narratives with inspirational women
Director
75 minutes | Multilingual
About the play:
Inspired by the African American playwright Ntozake Shange’s brilliant piece of choreopoems, the play adapted to the Indian context consists of a set of multilingual monologues narrated by women across age, class and gender. These reflect the various struggles that women face, like gender discrimination to the personal challenges faced in relationships due to national border conflicts.
The Q&A session that will follow will initiate dialogue on culturally stigmatized topics that are generally silenced/dismissed. The play primarily performed in English will be interspersed with a few sentences in regional languages in order to retain the cultural flavor and diversity of India.
Director
Sujatha Balakrishnan
As an actor, she firmly believes any art form must go beyond entertainment and engage the audience in becoming agents of change.The purpose of any art form is defeated if there is no underlying social criticism or political activism. As a special educator, she is appalled the way in which the differently abled children are isolated from the main stream schools and caged in the so-called special schools. Ageing which is a natural process has become a social problem. She decided to use the powerful medium of theatre art to address social issues which plague society. Thus began the journey of Theatre for Change, a not for profit initiative in 2015. She says there is no dearth for “Isms” across the globe! Ableism, ageism, classism, racism and sexism are some of the culturally stigmatized topics addressed.
