The Echo Chamber by
Ram Ganesh Kamatham is the first rehearsed reading in the series
No Such Thing.
About the play:
As the city of Thebes endures another terrorist attack, the autocrat Kreon orders a crackdown on social media and outlaws the organisation of public funerals as treason, punishable by death. In defiance of the ban, Antigone acts on her moral duty to bury her slain brother. Cyberpunk and the timeless Greek classic by Sophocles come together in this exploration of human rights, the dangers of post-factual politics and how media echo chambers threaten to erode our democracy.
Cast:
Anju Alva Naik
Arun Nair
Madhav Chandavarkar
Niharika Sinha
Pavan Srinath
Prarthana Prakash
Rajeev Ravindranathan
About the playwright:
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With over two decades of playwriting experience behind him,
Ram Ganesh Kamatham’s work has entertained and provoked audiences worldwide with startlingly contemporary themes, bold dramaturgical experimentation and the steadfast pursuit of dramatic truth.
His hit comedies include
Square Root of Minus One (2002),
Dancing on Glass (2004),
Project S.T.R.I.P. (2008) and
Ultimate Kurukshetra which won him the 2011
Sultan Padamsee Award. His genre-defying work includes
Creeper (2007) and the site-specific aerial performance piece
Mall Wall (2014). He has written for young people with
Beyond the Bubble (2016) and about young people in the cult-classic
Crab (2006).
He has pioneered the use of ethnographic research methods in playwriting, and has inter-disciplinary academic training in the anthropology of media, international relations and strategic studies. His work is often set against an urban backdrop, and his characters and dialogue reflect the unique cosmopolitanism found within Indian cities.
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