Shakti in stills from the play
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The traditional Greek tragedy, Medea, by Euripides, was first staged in 431 BC as a part of a trilogy. Whereas the opposite two performs are misplaced to historical past, the story of Jason and Medea continues to fascinate generations of theatre practitioners and has seen many iterations on stage.
Chennai’s Theatre Nisha has give you an adaptation of Medea with Why She Did, What She Did. Directed and carried out by Shakthi, the play is designed by V Balakrishnan of Theatre Nisha. It has percussion by Vishwa Bharath and has had its premier in Chennai in December 2023.
Shakti believes the theme of the Medea is related to today. “We’d all wish to assume that now we have moved on from the truth that girls didn’t have company of their lives, the theatre artiste and modern dancer, says from dwelling in Chennai. “Sadly the concept of company for a girl remains to be contested. I wish to imagine I stay in a world the place Medea is irrelevant and a delusion, however that’s not the case.”
It’s a solo efficiency, the place Shakti is joined on stage by the percussionist. Liking to work with the weather of rhythm and motion and being a educated theatre artiste and dancer, Shakti says she has tried to incorporate all these parts within the play.
Shakti has been in theatre for 12 years now and has a diploma in Motion Arts from Attakalari in Bengaluru (2016). A commerce undergraduate in advertising and marketing and a postgraduate in English literature, Shakti says she all the time wished to be an actor.
“We (Theatre Nisha) additionally work as theatre trainers in colleges and schools and appearing establishments in Chennai. I feel that it doesn’t matter what you research, it solely enhances your creativity. As an illustration, maths is all numbers and dance and music is rhythm and rely. When you’ve got studied physics, then that science will enable you perceive the stage lighting and design higher,” says the 32-year-old actor.
Quickly she hopes to convey the play, along with her notion of Medea to Bengaluru, and provides, she has a smooth spot for our metropolis. “I genuinely assume that the viewers in Bengaluru is very clued into theatre and the performing arts a lot that it fascinates us. We, as a bunch really feel that Bengaluru may be very embracing of the performing arts and welcoming of each type of artwork. In addition they come to look at not simply as spectators however to have interaction with the very idea of the artwork, even when it’s a darkish topic”.
