[Reader-list] [Announcements] The Waste Land - Bangalore, '08

[Logos Theatre]

   Please note that the venue is 1, Shanthi Road Gallery/Studio. The venue
was not mentioned in the previous mail - The oversight is         regretted.



>   Mixing memory...stirring a macchiato at Barista... Chamrajpet... Bagmane
> Tech Park... Garuda Mall... Malleshwaram 11th Cross... hooded hordes on
> hosur road... shoring fragments of memory...
>
> How does one take one of the most well known literary texts of modern
> times, and find it in one's immediate surroundings, while retaining its
> universality?
>
> How does one take a canonical text, yet treat it with irreverence and
> playfulness?
>
> How does one tell the stories of a city - this city, any city, The City,
> through the music and mordant humour of Eliot's verse?
>
> the SpeechMagic initiative, a part of Logos Theatre, presents The Waste
> Land - Bangalore, '08 - a multimedia show mixing live performance with
> video, installation and soundscape, based on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
>
> Living in this city, perhaps all of us, whether 'localite' or 'outsider',
> have felt at times a sense of unreality - be it the arbitrary actions of an
> administration that does not seem to follow any human system of logic, or
> the excesses of an incompetent police force, the ludicrousness of 'magic
> box' underpasses to the ever-shifting pattern of one ways that seem to be
> part of a bizarre treasure hunt where the map keeps transforming. The
> overpriced cups of tepid coffee at synthetic cafes, to the fast disappearing
> traces of the city that was.
> It is out of this sense of unreality, a sense of a vanishing beauty and the
> growing cacophony of chaos, that this performance/installation was born. In
> Eliot's text we found a reflection of the faultlines we see in the
> urbanscape of this city, and we attempted to tell its story, using this
> city's own sounds and images, a dash of dark humour, and our own dramatic
> response.
>
> Breaking the structure of a stage show where you sit for an hour and then
> return unaffected, we have attempted to create an immersive environment
> where, for up to three hours, you will be within and around the performance.
> Structured more like an exhibition where some of the paintings/sculptures
> are 'alive', there is no beginning, middle or end to this 'play' - you come
> in anytime, and stay for as long as you wish. The sequences of the
> performance happen around you, often more than one at the same time. You
> choose what you want to watch, how many times you want to watch it, and when
> you want to run away from the madness. Or you become a part of it, as you
> are a part of the madness of this city.
>
> Created and performed by: Joshua Williams, Abhijit Pakrashi, and
> theStillDancer.
>
> June 3rd and 4th, from 6 PM to 9 PM (last entry at 8 PM)
>
> Tickets: Rs. 200/- (only through SMS)
>
> text your name, date and number of tickets to:
>
>
> 9945799224 or 9886765198
>
> --
> Logos Theatre
>           In the beginning was the word
> No. 126,
> 3rd Main Road,
> Jayamahal Extension,
> Bangalore 560046
> --------------------------------------------------------
> If it be now, 'tis not to come;
> if it be not to come, it will be now;
> if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
> Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?
> Let be.
>
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