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An intruder in her home forces our protagonist to navigate the precarious balance between truth and deception for her survival.
El Disparo is an award-winning Uruguayan play about a literature professor and the young delinquent who breaks into her home. What begins as a home invasion quickly becomes a reckoning with justice, guilt, forgiveness, and revenge.
Directed by Mayura Baweja, with performances by Swati De and Paarth Maheshwari, this script-in-hand reading brings a distant world uncomfortably close.
Part of TheatreSHIft’s ‘Not Lost in Translation’ rehearsed reading series, bringing contemporary writing for the stage from across the world to Indian audiences.
Credits:
Original script by Estela Golovchenko, translated to English by Stephen Brown
Director: Mayura Baweja
Performers: Swati De and Paarth Maheshwari
Production: Mrinali Chowhan, Levin Sam Solomon and Norman Leslie V Doss
Poster: Sanjana Baweja and Mrinali Chowhan
In Collaboration with:
Artists
Mayura Baweja
Mayura Baweja’s theatrical encounters over the past two decades have involved an intense intermingling of her experiences as actor, spectator, writer, dramaturg, director, puppeteer and educator all of which have proved most productive and illuminating.
In 2023, she founded TheatreSHIft, a young theatre company committed to bringing diverse and multiple voices to new audiences.
Swati De
Swati De is a Bangalore-based theatre actor who has performed extensively in English and Bengali theatre. She has appeared in several plays by Girish Karnad; Bali: The Sacrifice, Dreams of Tipu Sultan, and Yayati, directed by Arundhati Raja for Jagriti Theatre, and Crossing to Talikota, directed by Arjun Sajnani. Notable performances include Fernando and His Grandmother, directed by Mayura Baweja, and Square Root of a Sonnet by Nilanjan Chowdhury, directed by Prakash Belawadi. She also acted played the lead in the Hindi short film, Chowraha directed by Nikhil Patil, which won the Special Jury Award at the Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival and was nominated at the Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival.
Paarth Maheshwari
Paarth Maheshwari is a trained theatre professional with experience in over thirty productions, both on stage and on screen. Paarth is an active judge and workshop host at theatre festivals & competitions in universities and high schools. He recently made his directorial debut with his original play Gajar Ka Halwa, where he also played a lead character and took his production for multiple houseful shows across the country.
