Based on the graphic novel anthology - When Kulbhushan Met Stockli. Two young journalists - one in India, the other in Switzerland - write letters to each other. They write about themselves, their lives, their cities and the state of their nations in the 21st Century. They draw their bodies and imagine the other’s. And then, they meet. They invent stories and sketch their predicaments, and in return are re-drawn by the other’s memories. The project seeks to play with the young art of Graphic Novel, the theatricality in drawing and the ways in which drawing and theatre can come together to represent notions of Home & Away, Nativity and Foreignness. Some stories from the book are adapted to form the narrative for the show, while others are improvised from the performers’ own lives. Its supported by Prohelvetia, Swiss Arts Council, India.
Cast - Amit Saxena, Julia Perazzini
Credits - Keshav Kumar (Text Work & New Writing), Michel Weber (Video Design), Ish S (Sound Design), Dheerendra Dwivedi (Live Drawing), Mukesh Kumar (Production), Kumaradas T N (Design & Assistant Direction)
Concept & Direction – Amitesh Grover
Show premiered on 10 Jan 2010 at National Theatre Festival, India.
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