Mathemagician
At Spaces, 1, Elliots Beach Road, Besant Nagar
on 21 & 22 August 2010
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Admission Free Call: 98404 74186
Cast & Crew:
Vocal: Bombay Jayashri
Actor: V. Balakrishnan
The Story
The monodrama interweaves dialogue, music and poetry, to take you to Babylon 500BC, the commercial centre of the ancient world. Castrated and sold into slavery by his father, Nikor is apprenticed to Plautus, the Chief Economist of Babylon.With his brilliance in mathematics and statecraft, he attains incredible fame and wealth as the state’s Chief Mathematician, Accountant General and Keeper of the Seals. When he finds his childhood friend Salla again, now the wife of a debauched prince, Nikor is haunted by questions about himself, and what Salla means to him.
The Music
The monodrama has a subtext of live music – sung by Bombay Jayashree, and played by Sheejith Krishna. The raags and the lyrics – thumri, ghazal and geet, belong to the Radha-Krishna and Sufi genres of romance, in the tawaif (courtesan) and bhakti traditions.
Mathemagician is being staged at Spaces, Chennai, by JustUs Repertory, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, by the Holy Cow Performing Arts Group, Scotland, on the same days: 21, 22 August 2010
Playwright/Director’s Note
ravages of empire, effects of war on civilian life, ills of slavery, human trafficking, child abuse, gender issues, misuse of science and knowledge. All MCC-ians are Welcome..!
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