For 30 years, you were happy to let others direct your plays. Why not this one?

This play posed peculiar technical problems — a woman talking to her image, and finally morphing into that image. I thought it's best that I sort it out, see how — or whether — it works.

Did you opt for hi-tech studio and action to emphasise modernity?

I came back to Bangalore after three years in London and saw how images had replaced words. Walking down the road, what if one saw one's own blown up image, I wondered. Couldn't have my play on Mahatma Gandhi Road, so I had a woman giving a TV interview in a sterile electronic setting. Nothing human in the studio until the actress gets agitated.

What was it like to direct the same play in two languages?

The actors came up with very different interpretations! I learnt that `Kannada' and `English' audiences responded in different ways, laughed at different jokes!

GOWRI RAMNARAYAN