SLEEPLESS..
....a site-specific spoken installation tribute to Albert Camus on his birth centenary with extracts from his path-breaking book on pacifism called "Neither Victims Nor Executioners"
Synopsis:
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
― Albert Camus
“There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
Do we really sleep? Or do we close our eyes and run away like an escapist from the world that burns from the lessons of the past that refuses to heal.
"What with the general fear of a war now being prepared by all nations and the specific fear of murderous ideologies, who can deny that we live in a state of terror? We live in terror because persuasion is no longer possible; because man has been wholly submerged in History; because he can no longer tap that part of his nature, as real as the historical part, which he recaptures contemplating the beauty of nature and of human faces; because we live in a world of abstractions, of bureaus and machines, of absolute ideas and of crude messiahnism. We suffocate among people who think they are absolutely right, whether in their machines or in their ideas. And for all who can live only
an atmosphere of human dialogue and sociability, silence is the end of the world."
Directed and Designed by Parnab Mukherjee
Performers: Bhavana Nissima, Sandeep Raj, Nayantara Nanda Kumar
Duration: 40 minutes without any intermission
Entry - Free
Organizer
Parnab Mukherjee
An independent media analyst, art curator and a performance consultant by profession, Mr Parnab Mukherjee is one of the leading alternative theatre directors of the country. Currently, he is a roving editor with Kindle-India: a monthy magazine published from Kolkata. He has earlier worked for a sports fortnightly, The Asian Age and Sambad Pratidin-a Bengali daily.
He is an acclaimed practitioner on Badal Sircar's theatre practice, Shakespeare-in-education and specialises in theatre-for-conflict- resolution and theatre-of-the-campus. He is considered as a leading light in alternative theatre in the country having directed more than 70 productions of performance texts including four international collaborations. He has also performed 15 full length solos which include an acclaimed series of plays on human trafficking, HIV and segregation and on issues concerning north-east India especially on the AFSPA (1958).
He has devised, conceived, designed and directed/collaborated both experimental performances and workshops for a number of institutions, activist groups, support
groups, schools, colleges and movements in the country.
He is the artistic director of Best of Kolkata Campus. And has recently directed the Trilogy of Unrest for the Best of Kolkata Campus (in collaboration with Five Issues). A set of three plays which includes Hamletmachine, Necropolis and This Room in not my room.
He is currently touring with Tagore Now !: a theatre installation tribute on the centenary of the Nobel honour to Rabindranath Tagore which was commissioned and premiered for Embassy of Sweden in India.
