Play: Life-In-Progress
Director: Anurupa Roy
Group: Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust, New Delhi
Language: Non-verbal
The Group
Founded in 1997, the Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust is a puppet theatre group which was founded by Anurupa Roy with help from fellow artists and friends from school and college. With sixteen productions in its past and present repertoire, the Trust aims at the creation of new art work, performances, designs and aesthetics using the puppet at its core and by collaborating with other arts and artists. Katkatha also uses puppets for social communication and behavioral change; for working in the specialized field of conflict resolution; for building communication between puppeteers within India and with the international puppetry community; and for carrying out research in new techniques of puppetry as well as the philosophy of puppets. The Trust trains future professional puppeteers and field workers with a focus on community development and social communication through alternative teaching methods.
The Play
This is a play with no defined linear narrative but a series of images that look at our lives, our surrounding world and our inner spaces. Old newspapers and trash, a rag-picker, creepy crawlies, creatures from nightmares, dreamscapes, nebulous faces, dismembered hands, plastic bottles, curious people, devouring mouths, grabbing hands, running, masking, unmasking and more trash make haunting images that hold your imagination for a few moments and then disappear into the trash.
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