Sampangi - a play in Telugu, based on Brother's Grim tale Rapunzel.

A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to a witch. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices a rapunzel plant (or, in most versions[8] of the story, rampion), growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. One night, her husband breaks into the garden to gather some for her; on a second night, as he scales the wall to return home, an evil witch named Dame Gothel catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, on condition that the baby be given to her at birth. Desperate, he agrees. When the baby is born, Dame Gothel takes her to raise as her own and names her Rapunzel after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she reaches her twelfth year, Dame Gothel shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window.

The story is reinterpreted through the eyes of contemporary teenagers. The play is scripted by Udaya Bhanu Garikipati and is directed by Krishna Prasad. It is presented by Bhoomika, Hyderabad. for details bhoomikatheatre@gmail.com ph 8143851715. About the group visit www.bhoomika.in.

Entry - Free.