Name of the Play: The Skeleton Woman
Name of the Theatre Group: Quaff Theatre (Mumbai)
Direction: Nayantara Kotian
Playwright: Prashant Prakash and Kalki Koechlin
Duration: 75 minutes
Synopsis
Expectations limit the mind to what we already know. They seek to compromise the imagination and ‘The Skeleton Woman’, inspired by an Inuit folk tale, stands on only one rather elusive leg, that of the imagination. In the forefront is a man who writes about the sea, a goose that he talks to, and a woman — who seems to stand for reason, but impersonates a television in her spare time. This is a play where colours, sets and actors are all performers. It takes the audience on an undulating journey through the illogical, comical and poetic world of a writer’s mind.
‘The Skeleton Woman’ won the Metroplus Playwright Award 2009, which was given to the best unpublished and unperformed play in English. This is the first full-length play written by the two award-winning playwrights — Prashant Prakash and Kalki Koechlin, the two actors in this production. The play has been staged in Delhi and in Mumbai, where it received good reviews.
An actor and a writer, Prashant Prakash has been working in theatre for the last couple of years. Kalki Koechlin, who studied Drama and Theatre at Goldsmiths University, does both theatre and cinema. She had a major role in Anurag Kashyap’s film “Dev D", and is now shooting for other film projects.
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