OPEN AND SHUT

Concept & Performance - Shabari Rao
Directors - Maitri Gopalakrishna & Shabari Rao
Content Expert - Rohini Mohan
Documentation and Assistant Director - Navya Sah
Production and Rehearsal Assistant - Noor Sengupta

This performance is part of Stepping Stones, a project anchored by feminist publishing house Zubaan, New Delhi, supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) and the Max Mueller Bhavan, and builds on Zubaan’s work on the issue of sexual and gender-based violence.

This performance is the story of Lakshmi Nagappa who is a senior police woman. She manipulates, directs and questions the audience to reconsider their place and responsibility in the society.

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