rehearsed Reading
Peer Pleasures/Laura de Weck directed by Karen D'Mello

German Spotlight 2018

Sat, 30.06.2018
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Peer Pleasures is the first staged reading in the 4th edition of the annual German Spotlight series. The play will be presented in the English translation of the German play Lieblingsmenschen by Swiss playwright Laura de Weck, and is directed by Bangalore theatre-maker Karen D'Mello.

The plot
The play is about 6 university students struggling to find their way through their dreams, their longing for love and their insecurities in the quest for something permanent.  

But how do we choose in a life full of possibilities? Do we have to have it all figured out right now? Will we still make it if we don't?

Team
Honey Raza, Nisha Abdulla, Pranay Pandey, Sneha Ram, Vishnu Narain, Sunayana Premchander.
Production: Sunayana Premchander
Sound Design:  Anoop Unnikrishnan
Animation/Projection: Anicipate Studio  (Animators : Neerav Doshi and Aithihya Ashok Kumar)


About the Director
Karen D’mello is a theatre-maker and facilitator from Bangalore. She is currently the artistic director of KathaSiyah, which she co-founded with Sunayana Premchander in July 2015. KathaSiyah has produced 4 plays till date, in English and Kannada. She has worked extensively with Indian Ensemble, primarily with Abhishek Majumdar as assistant director.

German Spotlight is curated and presented by Sandbox Collective in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore.