Onko - Play November 25, 2008

Onko - Play. Produced by Tin Can. Direction: Soumyak Kanti De Biswas.

An experimental play built upon a structure of scattered, disjointed monologues, it explores concepts related to unity, liberty and personal identity, along with the obvious contradictions that arise among them when they co-exist.

Fundamentally, it deals with the idea of numbers in our lives and the manner in which it shapes power, politics and mass psychology in any country, including ours. 15th August is a date on the calendar which Indians celebrate as Independence Day to mark that day, more that 60 years ago, when the country won its freedom from British rule. But, young people in modern India, living and thriving in a cosmopolitan society, cannot really understand the significance of this hard-won freedom. Brought up in a free country, they have never experienced anything but independence. Yet, the desire to be free remains constant, rather like a primal urge to break free of anything that restricts us or forces us to act in a particular way.

As part of the Vodafone Odeon theatre festival.