City: Mumbai
Location: Prithvi Theatre, Juhu & NCPA, Experimental Theater
Date: Thu, 2013/02/14 (All day) – Thu, 2013/02/21 (All day)
In partnership with Institut Français, Embassy of France in India, Prithvi Theatre and NCPA
Gates to India Song, by Éric Vigner
From 14th to 17th, 6 & 9 pm, Prithvi Theatre
Thurs. 21st, 7 pm, NCPA, Experimental Theatre
Gates to India Song, an original work by Eric Vigner takes you on a voyage through the works of Marguerite Duras. It is a unique, theatrical adaptation of two of her novels, the Vice Consul & India Song which make up the Indian cycle.
“These texts both recount the impossible love story between Anne-Marie Stretter and the Vice Consul of Lahore at the Embassy of France in Calcutta. The works are inextricably bound. Between them there is a game of mirrors, voices, actions. I wanted to mix them all up on the stage of a theatre. I wanted the writing of Marguerite Duras to penetrate into Indian theatre for the first time by allowing Indian actors to assume the characters of their French colonists living in a literary and imaginary India”, Eric Vigner
CAST
Nandita Das, as Anne-Marie Stretter
Suhaas Ahuja, as The Vice-Consul
Subodh Maskara, as The Embassador
Jim Sarbh, as Charles Rossett (the young attaché)
Neeraj Kabi, as Peter Morgan
