Digital Theatre
Abhi.Neta, Aayenge
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Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Viewing disclaimer: There might be some profane language
Abhi.Neta, Aayenge is based on Ionesco’s play The Leader - written in 1953, it is an absurdist look at the role played by the media and hype in the creation of political propaganda. In this transmedia adaptation, the performance is not only located in the bodies of the actors, but also in the performance of technology itself: social media and news websites and other platforms “perform” in response to both algorithmic diktats as well as to user interaction. Digital communication tools show how these technologies are constantly leveraged to design different and competing versions of the truth, and the role that we as actors play through our own performances on these platforms. The performance is devised with an acute awareness of how the digital is already a hyper performative space, where identities and behaviours are enactments that are modulated by technology.
Abhi.Neta, Aayenge inverts the practices of storytelling: instead of hiding the structures of fiction-making, through its exploration of the themes of misinformation, the attention economy and fake news, it mimics the very real phenomenon that we currently see in the making of news - a nexus of social media hashtags generated by both fake and genuine sources that creates news in and of itself - a simulacrum of the actual news event, which no longer enters the news cycle without being mediated by the filters of social media outrage.
With: Paulanthony George, Varun Kurtkoti, Satchit Puranik and Padmini Ray Murray.
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