2016 - Memory RecipeMemory Recipe is an experience that brings together food and performance. The experience explores one's relationship to food, its ingredients and the processes of cooking through smells and sounds
The experience aims at building an appetite for the audience. An appetite for food and an appetite for memory. The performer chef speaks in verse and in poetry, inviting the audience to go back in time, to find themselves with food and conversations. The chef talks to the audience and tells them stories about cooking, its processes and the fine aspects that make food really good. |
2016 - Coloured and ChoosingAn Immersive Experience of Gender
You can see. Yet you cant. Blindfolded, you are cut out from your immediate reality You can sense. If you choose. The body becomes the interpreter of signs, sensitive and subtle You can box. Or you can blur. The boundaries of the masculine and the feminine You can play. You can find. Your gender viewpoint without generalisations |
2016 - Knock Knock Who's There?knock knock who’s there is a workshop + performance where the audience will participate in ways that they get to meet themselves over and over again.
Through a montage of visuals, sounds, movement, art and text, the experimance will create a space for playful exploration and discovery. Through the experimance, the audience recalls personal narratives, moments and moods from their lives that reveals their different personas. They will express and understand themselves better through words, numbers, colours, shapes and sounds. |
2015 - A moment of memoryA moment of memory is an intimate experiential performance that takes you through real life events and incidents of 4 performers – from experiencing crime to tough relationships, from individual hope to a sense of duty and from cherishing good times to fighting everyday troubles.
The performers put themselves out there- their lives, their stories, their struggles, their fears and their moments – for the audience to experience and be part of. Immerse yourselves into their worlds. |
2013 - Re:play Re-play is a performance duet inspired by traditional Indian games. Through powerful storytelling and audience immersion, the performance is an experience of the sounds, rhythms, patterns, structures, colours and narratives that traditional Indian games lend themselves to. The performance also explores how these games and their elements are relevant to us by going through a journey that evokes themes of mythology, contemporary events, memory, Indian history as well as Indian folklore.
This 80-minute journey asks the audience to be present in unique ways. The audience becomes part of the performance and through their participation, the performance gains a new meaning. |
2013 - Visual RespirationVisual Respiration is about breathing life into images. A photograph captures a moment, frozen in time, forever. Visual Respiration seeks to look beyond that image to create a photo reality for the audience. In a span of 60 minutes, visuals talk to the audience through performance. In this devised duet, the audience is taken on a visual journey from landscapes to portraits, from street signs to busy markets, from artefacts to monuments and from India to London and beyond, embracing the moods, rhythms, sounds and textures of an everyday. In this piece, photographs are, quite literally, developed.Visual Respiration premieres at the Accidental Festival 2013
The performance was a collaboration with Justina Kaminskaite. Original music scored by GD Prasad and lightin design by Tanya Stephenson. Visual support by Noisy Pilgrims and Camilla Brison |
2013 - GossamerGossamer was an installation that offered audiences a bespoke experience of their own life starting with their past and predicting their potential future.The piece explored the role of social media in opening up lives of people based on their presence or absence in the online world. Inspired by the Moirai or the three fates in Greek Mythology, the piece revolved around human destiny and how that is shaped by individual action as well as by other external influences. The piece spoke to the audience in the form of direct address, moving them to look at the life they've lived thus far and make careful choices about the time they have left in life.
The installation was a collaboration with practitioners Ash Alberg, Claire Le Tissier, Jonah Fazel and Sara Mashayekh and was produced at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. |
2012 - The DeviceThe Device was a creative collaboration with Dean Rodgers and Lily Wolff, my colleagues at Central School of Speech and Drama. The show is participatory in nature and explores the creative use of mobile communication to devise Drama.
The Device is about intimacy through technology. The Audience is the framework around which the play operates. Through a series of instant communication messages, the mood is set and the play begins. A soundscape of beeps and booms envelopes the surrounding.Chance meetings occur, intimate discussions blossom, treasures are discovered, secrets are shared, whispered phone calls murmur in corners and a connection is made. An atmosphere of intimacy and unity emerges. Herein the audience is called upon to be the storyteller, gambler, confidante, ally, obstacle, and secret keeper. The audience are the performance, We merely guide from within the glass booth. |
2011 - Swami and FriendsSwami and Friends is the story of a young lad named Swami and his escapades with his two close friends, Rajam and Mani. Set in late pre-independence India, the story takes us through the world of charming boyish innocence of Swami in Malgudi. With remarkable characterisation and a wonderful sense of humour, R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends is a delight for all.
The play is conceived as a seamless narrative, filled with humour and old-world charm. The piece is a combination of simplistic design and powerful delivery. The space transforms into multiple landscapes through the show, exploring a variety of forms, moods and tones. Adapted from the Original by Manasi Subramaniam Design and Direction: Self |
2001 - 2011
(2008 - 2009) - Designed and Directed Rumpelstiltskin, a musical for Children, Chennai, India
(2006 - 2008) - Scripted, Designed and Directed Kingdom of Fools, a bilingual adapted from an Indian Folklore, Chennai, India
(2007) - Designed and Directed J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a charity show in India, realising funds for Madhuram Narayan Centre for exceptional Learning
(2007) - Designed and Directed Alladin and the Magic Lamp, a Musical presentation by Landing Stage
(2005) - Designed and Directed a German Folklore, The Adventures of Little Mouk in association with the Geothe Institute, Chennai, India
(2004) - Designed and Directed a Grimm's Fairytale, The Brave Little Tailor as a Musical for Children
(2001 - 2004) - Began my Theatrical journey with Masquerade's Twelfth Night in Chennai, India. Been a part of over 100 productions, Dramatised readings and workshops as an Actor, Stage crew, Lighting Technician, Sound assist, Trainee and contributor
(2006 - 2008) - Scripted, Designed and Directed Kingdom of Fools, a bilingual adapted from an Indian Folklore, Chennai, India
(2007) - Designed and Directed J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a charity show in India, realising funds for Madhuram Narayan Centre for exceptional Learning
(2007) - Designed and Directed Alladin and the Magic Lamp, a Musical presentation by Landing Stage
(2005) - Designed and Directed a German Folklore, The Adventures of Little Mouk in association with the Geothe Institute, Chennai, India
(2004) - Designed and Directed a Grimm's Fairytale, The Brave Little Tailor as a Musical for Children
(2001 - 2004) - Began my Theatrical journey with Masquerade's Twelfth Night in Chennai, India. Been a part of over 100 productions, Dramatised readings and workshops as an Actor, Stage crew, Lighting Technician, Sound assist, Trainee and contributor