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Do You Know This Song?
Project type
Theatre
On Tour
Apr 2023 - Sahayende Theatre, Attapadi, Kerala (IN)
May 2023 - Shed 9, New Delhi (IN)
Jun 2023 - Saraswati Music College, New Delhi (IN)
Jun 2023 - Kaserne, Basel (CH)
Jun 2023 - Nationaltheater Mannheim, Mannheim (DE)
Aug 2023 - Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich (CH)
Oct 2023 - Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
Oct 2023 - Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
Nov 2023 - SPIELART Theaterfestival, Munich (DE)
Mar 2024 - Points Communs, Cergy (FR)
Mar 2024 - ITFOK, Thrissur (IN)
Mar 2024 - META, New Delhi (IN)
May 2024 - PACT, Essen (DE)
May 2024 - Viernulvier, Ghent (BE)
Jun 2024 - Les SUBS, Lyon (FR)
Jun 2024 - CDCN d'Uzès, Uzès (FR)
Jun 2024 - Tanzquartier, Wien (AT)
Jun 2024 - Sept collines, Saint-Etienne (FR)
January 2025 - National School of Drama, Delhi
April 2025 - RVF, Adishakti
May 2025 - Figuren Theatre Festival ,Germany
Cast and Crew
Performance, Artistic Direction - Mallika Taneja
Dramaturgy - Hansa Thapliyal
Lighting Design - Sangeet Shrivastava
Sound Design - Chayan Adhikari, Bindhumalini N
Scenography - Sangeet Shrivastava with Hansa Thapliyal, Vijay Kate, Tanuj Arora Original Text - Mallika Taneja
Text Collaboration - Rajesh Nirmal
Production - Aman Mohammadi, Drishti Chawla
Doll Makers - Hansa Thapliyal, Aman Mohammadi, Drishti Chawla
Developed at Shed 9, New Delhi and Sahyande Theatre, Kerala
With the voices of Banwari Taneja, Bindhumalini N, Chayan Adhikari, Kajal Ghosh,
Nadeera Zaheer Babbar, Sudha Thapliyal, Suhasini Taneja, Sunanda Achar
The piece is based on interviews and conversations with Banwari Taneja, Elizabeth Achar, Geetika Thapliyal, Hansa Thapliyal, Kajal Ghosh, Maude Gonsalves, Nadira Zaheer Babbar, Nandini Guha Rajagopal, Oona Gupta, Raj Babbar, Sudha Thapliyal, Suhasini Taneja, Sunanda Achar
Co-Production - The WEB network: La Maison de la danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, WPZimmer, Beursschouwburg, Black Box Teater, Tanzquartier Wien, Frascati Productions | LES SUBS - Lyon (FR), Points communs - Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise,
and Kaserne Basel, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Nationaltheater Mannheim, SPIELART Theaterfestival
This is a piece about loss and grief.
This is also a piece about love, finding voice and singing.
At one end lies the dark space of broken dreams, at the other, the slippery slope of happiness... in between is a tale about a voice that once was beautiful, unforgettable... and now forgotten.
" This voice was a voice of the stage, of this world. A voice that was close to me... one that I loved very much.. and perhaps... still love?"
Mallika Taneja collected a long forgotten voice and its story through interviews collected over almost a year. In these, she found a story - of dreams made and broken and a voice that ached to reach out but found itself shackled in the domestic. This voice and the songs it sung have now been collected from the found fragments of forgetting, straining memories... and placed on stage.
Revisited. Reimagined. Restrung.
With her harmonium, a microphone, and some toys and objects from her childhood, the performer, returns, as an adult, to look for the person she lost, a singer and her songs, and much more besides. Who was she? Where did she go, and most importantly, why did she get lost? In trying to find some answers, she becomes different parts of herself and sometimes, takes on the role of being her.
We now listen to these songs that we may never have heard, through a story that seems all too familiar, the performer ventures into the land of not- forgetting, we take a journey into the dark, and learn to travel, through song. As she moves between searching, singing and telling a tale of grief, Mallika invites people to join in.
