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Head to this interactive theatre play at Harkat Studios in Versova
Updated On: 10 March, 2024 08:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Christalle Fernandes
The Firefly Women, an interactive play about resisting injustice, comes to Mumbai for the first time. Its writers and performers talk about how daily life is an act of resistance
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Manjari Kaul, seen in this still from the play, says that the letters flying in the air represent the freedom and joy the prisoners feel when they receive letters, despite the delay and censorship
For Manjari Kaul, queer feminist performer and director, even small things, like laughter, can be acts of resistance. Dramaturg Nisha Abdulla, on the other hand, says hope is a form of resistance. We are talking about the play Firefly Women, which Kaul directs and performs in with co-artiste Deepika Chauhan, and which Abdulla helped envision. It is in the city after a successful stint nationally and globally.
The play was first recorded as a solo digital show in several episodes, based on the letters that student activists Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita wrote while they were in jail. In 2022, Kaul began working on the first physical edition of the show, a duet, with Abdulla, sifting through the letters and transforming them into an episodic narrative.
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