The Thornbirds

The story revolves around a mythological village where women worship a fruit on full-moon nights. When they feed this fruit to their husbands,they are blessed with a child. “In the play,the woman protagonist feeds this fruit not to her husband but to her lover. Her husband is a murderer and the play looks at the outcome of her actions,’’ says Kant,an alumnus of the Department of Indian Theatre,Panjab University,and founder of Theatre Lab,a group in Chandigarh. He adds that the play retains the earthy language of the text and has etched out each of the 14 characters on stage.

Director of critically acclaimed plays such as Ek Satya Harishchandra,Balde Tibbe,Ek Aur Dronacharya and Arthadosha,Kant adds that in Tota Bola,the Tota (parrot) is a symbol of love and sex,the conflict between which is intricately depicted in the play.

Tota Bola will be staged

at Tagore Theatre on

November 27 at 6.30 pm

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