Barren Land, written by
Dmitrij Gawrisch and directed in the Kannada translation by
MD Pallavi, is the
last dramatised reading in the series
German Spotlight 2021.
The play was translated from English into Kannada by
Dadapeer Jyman.
This
translation was
sponsored by the
Goethe-Institut.
About the play:
Brothers Ivan and Oleg have run away from home, hoping to build a life in the west, perhaps even settle down somewhere less suffocating. Drowning in debts and secrets, their dreams of a comfortable future starts showing cracks.
Why this play:
The play is about the struggle to be able to have a decent and dignified life. It deals with issues of legal citizenship, struggles of migrants and the effects it has on interpersonal relationships. MD Pallavi was deeply affected by the migrant crisis of India witnessed in the pandemic last year. The struggle of the migrants to be able to go home, to go to a better life, to eat, to live will forever remain in our consciousness as one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has seen.
© MD Pallavi
MD Pallavi is a singer, composer, actor, editor, director and filmmaker. She has a degree in Hindustani classical music from Benares University. She has been performing Kannada poetry (bhavageethe) across Karnataka and abroad for the last twenty five years. She has won the META Best Actress award for her solo theatrical piece C Sharp C Blunt. She has won the State award for her song in the film Duniya, and the State Kempegowda award for her contribution in the field of music. She has acted in Girish Kasaravalli's Gulabi Talkies and Prakash Belawadi's Stumble - both national award-winning films. ‘Playgrounds’ , a short film she co-wrote and directed, won the best film award in the Hong Kong Film Festival and at IFFLA, Los Angeles. She has directed plays for Abhinaya Taranga (Matinee Horror, a devised piece and Santiago Savina Sutta - an adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold) and Dharwad Rangayana (Ole Hatti Uridode - an adaptation of Arthur Miller's Crucible). She has been awarded the prestigious Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for her contribution to the field of Bhav Sangeet.
She is keen on collaborating with multidisciplinary artists.
Cast and Crew:
Written by
Dmitrij Gawrisch
Translated by
Dadapeer Jyman
Directed by
MD Pallavi
Lighting by
Parthasarathi S
Production management by
Veena Appiah
Performed by
Shrunga BV, Kaliprasad, Ananya Ayachit
Here is the
Vimeo link to watch the performance and it will be accessible till
September 3, 2021.
German Spotlight is a joint project of the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and
Sandbox Collective.
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