Sankar Venkateswaran/Nicholas Kirutharshan/Rustom Bharucha
My Name is Tamizh (working title) has been specially commissioned for the
Spielart Theaterfestival 2023. The play is built on the principles of dialogue and translation, excerpted from ongoing conversations between people from different cultural backgrounds. Three performers, engaging in seemingly candid and discursive conversations, slowly enter and traverse a difficult terrain of memories, stories, eye-witness accounts and lived experiences of the Tamil people of Jaffna.
Discussion on
My Name is Tamizh: November 3, 2021 | Münchner Volkstheater
Sankar Venkateswaran and
Nicholas Kirutharshan, who runs a cultural initiative in Jaffna will be sharing their thoughts, reflections, entry points, the do’s and don'ts in their creative process of making a collaborative piece of theatre that deals with language, power and memories in the context of Northern Sri Lanka, particularly Jaffna.
The conversation will be in English, moderated by Rustom Bharucha.
Sankar Venkateswaran, born in 1979, is a theatre director from Kerala. He lives and works from Sahyande Theatre, a theatre-dwelling he built in the mountain valley of Attappadi, Kerala. In 2007 he founded his own company
Theatre Roots&Wings. His works include Indian Rope Trick, Criminal Tribes Act, Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken, Shogo Ohta’s Water Station, and INDIKA for Munich Volkstheater. He is a recipient of the Ibsen Scholarship 2013, Norway. He served as the artistic director for International Theatre Festival of Kerala in 2016 and 2017.
The
Jaffna Project, under which
My Name is Tamizh is being developed, is supported by the
Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka and the
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore.
Also on at
Spielart Theaterfestival 2021 in Munich:
Criminal Tribes Act: Extended directed by
Sankar Venkateswaran, which investigates forms of social exclusion in India and their legitimation by the colonial history.
November 3 to 5, 2021, 7.00 p.m. CEST | Münchner Volkstheater
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