Directed by: Dr. Mrinal Jyoti Goswami

Date (1^st Performance): 22^nd December, 2012

Venue (1^st Performance): Rabindra Bhavan, Guwahati, Assam

Duration of the play: 1 hour 10 minutes (without intermission)

Language of the play: Multilingual (Assamese, Bodo, Rabha and Gibberish)

Presentation Style: Stylized

About the Play

The silver lines of old memories tease us from behind. That is why, perhaps, we nostalgically gloat over our childhood days. We are again and again reminded of our playful childhood with leisure games like, “Imaan Imaan Paani, Ganga Rani”, “Khusti” etc. In our wildest dreams we could not have seen that through these games, played in the happiest moments of our life, we were actually getting ready to face the turbulence of the present times, as we have been facing in Assam, and the whole world. At a time when our world is terrorized by the dehumanizing impacts of the intense socio-political upheavals and economic depression, we want to escape to the imaginary world of myths, legends and tales for solace and relief from the worries of the present. Memories of our childhood years bring back to our conscience the relevance of such myths and legends as we live our day-to-day lives with them. This is also a situation in which we are reminded of Salvador Dali and his great Canvas The Persistence of Memory and of Edvard Munch and his The Scream (or The Cry). On the basis of them an ambitious attempt has been made to portray the day-to-day politics of the contemporary times.

Directors Note

Going down the memory lane and being inspired by the activities of childhood times, a “Non-Linguistic Montage” is being sought to be worked out in this play. However, while dealing with the fleeting memory, we have adopted the non-linear approach so that we can create non-linguistic montage to present our main themes in a stylised way. In a sense, we have trying to re-create contemporary affairs and situations on the basis of what we have lost in the form of childhood games played with innocence and purity.

Note: The show was initially performed as part of “Bhaxa Xahityo Xonmiloni, Axom.” Later, it was presented at CITF 2017 and different theatre festivals under the banner “AANK_A Creative Line.”