A monologue portraying a catastrophe for humanity
Endless View written by
Theresia Walser and translated into English by
Neil Blackadder is the
third reading in this year's
German Spotlight.
Anna Thomas directs the English reading of the play.
About the play:
Jona sits in her cabin onboard a ship, as catastrophe unfolds around her and slowly consumes her in its wake. She is on a cruise, in the middle of the ocean, with cable TV and entertainment. What more could one ask for! As the story unfolds, you see the cruise ship through Jona’s eyes, the eccentricity of her neighbours, the sameness of every day, the stopping of time as tragedy strikes.
© Anna Thomas
Anna Thomas did her Masters in Communications and Media planning from the Mudra Institute of Communications at Ahmedabad. She is an analytics professional with over 20 years of experience in marketing and sales data analytics and currently runs her own analytics company called Amplify Analytix. Anna also runs a theatre collective called Jugaad Company with her husband Jimmy. Jimmy & Anna have a collective experience in theatre of close to 30 years with over 1000 shows behind them. What she has loved about her journey with theatre is creating and telling stories relevant to the Indian urban audience. What she enjoys most is short format theatre and has been invited to several theatre festivals in this format and has won several awards across the country.
Director’s Note:
Endless View is a play about the journey of the mind. It is a single person, watching the world around her collapse and trying to make sense of it all. But what was really interesting to me was watching her watch herself – the sameness of every day, being crazy and frenzied and completely matter of fact, all at once. Imagine, one person, one cabin, and an egg but with a fantastically, crazy-morbid-satirical story to tell. I was intrigued by this idea of a single-person frame and how we could bring this story to life.
Credits:
Director:
Anna Thomas
Performer:
Bhavana Rajendran
Only
one performance. Entry
free!
German Spotlight is a joint project of the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and
Sandbox Collective.
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