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Allegedly
Project type
Online Theatre
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Cast and Crew
Performed by:
Mallika Taneja, Aditee Biswas, Shena Gamat
With
Aman Mohammadi, Anahita Sarabhai, Anomita Sen, Anurekha Deb, Bonita Rajpurohit, Deepshikha Mishra, Dipali, Drishti Chawla, Eeshta Malhotra, Gunjan Gupta, Hansa Thapliyal, Katyayini Pant, Lauren Robinson, Neelambari Bhattacharya, Ritika Singh, Rituparna Pal, Shweta Pasricha, Rishika Kaushik, Pooja Purohit, Tanima Sharma, Thinley Chodon
Production Manager: Meghna Singh Bhadauria
Executive Producer: Khoya Paya
Scripting Associate: Rajesh Nirmal with Meghna Singh Bhadauria
Music: Ashwini Verma
Project Advisor: Hansa Thapliyal
Technical Advisor: Santana Issar
Legal Advisor: Mini Saxena, The Consent Project
Design and Direction: Mallika Taneja
This piece was first commissioned by Zubaan as part of their project ‘Stepping Stones’ examining sexual violence and impunity in India. The adapted version of Allegedly has been co-produced by Beursschouwburg Brussels, Kunstencentrum Vooruit Ghent, and Khoya Paya.
On Tour
2021
January 10 - Haq Centre, India
May 25 - Spring Utrecht
May 29 - Voice Amplified, USA
June 20th - National Theatre Mannheim, Germany
June 27th - National Theatre Mannheim, Germany
24 July - National Arts Festival, South Africa
28 August - Jindal Global University, India
2 September - Zurich Theatre Festival, Switzerland
2022
24, 25 September - Favoriten Festival, Germany
Allegedly seeks to spark conversations at the intersection of
sexual violence, justice and our personal predicaments. Using
personal stories, experiences and musings, the piece asks
questions about the systems that govern us and the semantics
that carry out that governance. Built as an ‘ongoing discussion’
— a work forever in progress — Allegedly opens up the
contradictions, confusions and irregularities of our own
behaviour, while engaging the audience in the questions and
negotiations, the piece seeks to implicate their thoughts and
decisions in the direction the play takes, trying to ‘make sense occupies and creates online. of it all’. Or at least the closest we can get to!
The piece wasfirst commissioned by Zubaan, an independent feminist publishing house based in New Delhi, as part of their project ‘Stepping Stones’, that looked at sexual violence and impunity all over India. The piece has been performing ‘work in progress’ shows in universities and other contexts in India since 2018.
Now, Allegedly has been reimagined for 'touring' as a Live interactive performance online, and with a change in its form, it is also experiencing a redefining of the show’s relationship with its performers, audiences and the spaces it occupies and creates online.
Is it rape if I don’t feel raped? Can feeling be a fact?
What do you want?
Is the law the only form of justice?
What is justice?
What do you want?
How do you feel?
Are you sure?
What do you want?
Why did you take so long? What do you want?
Mallika Taneja received the ZKB Patronage Prize for Allegedly
