A play explores the grey worlds a photographer finds in her subjects
Ritika Shrorti in the play
The human condition is a complicated experience. Despair can follow elation with moments of calm in between. Love can turn into loss, which can turn into love again. Friends become foes, even as unlikely people start to seem like family with time. The point is that our lives are not black and white. We exist in shades of grey. That’s the central premise of a play that will be staged virtually this week. It’s called The Light Catcher, and follows the experiences of a photographer as she starts unravelling the complexities which make her subjects a part of that roller coaster ride we define as the human condition.
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It’s a solo play that stars Ritika Shrotri, and which Sanket Parkhe has directed. Niranjan Pedanekar wrote it, and he tells us, “The photographer goes in search of beauty across the world and takes pictures under different circumstances in different places, which gives her an understanding of her subjects. But that understanding is often not what the reality is, and her story ties in with that journey she’s undertaken.”
Pedanekar adds that the performer and the lighting play the biggest roles in the production. He also reveals that the script begins with a question and ends with the answer. But the parts that are in the middle can all be jumbled up. The plot — if there is one — is non-linear in that sense. But then again, so is life. It starts with birth and ends with death, and there is hardly a fixed pattern to what happens in between. If all this seems philosophical, then it’s because The Light Catcher seems like an existential play. It helps make sense of our collective realities as human beings. And if there have been such questions that you have been mulling over, check out the performance and catch Shrotri’s character almost literally shed light on them.
On August 13 and 14, 6.30 pm
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Cost: Rs 160
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