A Land Tells Lies (Oru Desam Nuna Parayunnu)
from Theatre Repertory, Kozhikode
By A. Santhakumar
This malayalam play is about the internal conflict of a land that is forced to say lies fearing the state and the theocracy. The plot of the play is centered on the love affair between a Muslim religious scholar and a Christian nun. They start living together breaking the rigid fences of religions. The religiously bound families of both the hero and heroine, though at heart they agree this relationship, decide to go against them fearing the religious leadership. The play takes a dramatic turn here. It was a play written by a local playwright of that land. But the religious heads approaches the police for preventing the staging of this play. The police forces the playwright to rewrite his play. Though he rewrote the play with big lies, there still remained a burning truth in it. And the truth was – no holy love can be caged in the boundaries of religions. This play dreams the dream of boundless love.
The Reparatory Theatre, Kozhikode
The play is staged by the Reparatory Theatre, Kozhikode . The members of this theatre group come from villages. To them, theatre is a medium to express the life around them. This is a group that collectively thinks and works for better theatric expressions. They have come together in search of a meaningful theatre experience and perform all over Kerala. For them, each performance and theatre experience is an effort to make this dream a reality.
Script and Direction : A. Santhakumar
Performing Artists : Anitha, Karunakaran, Rathi, Sudheer Sami, Sajeesh Chandran, Sudheesh Krishna , Ratheesh, Ashraf
Associate and Light design : Naveen Raj
Music : Sivadas Gandharvan
Music Execution : Vinod Nisari
Art and Make Up : Shaju and Shanoop
Costume Designer : Dinesh Chelannur and Suresh Marvel
Production Controller : Shaji Poloor
Production Manager : Vinu Master and Anil
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