A Zoom Call Re:Birds is a performative audio-visual experience that combines theatrical and old-school radio programming elements. Using a medium synonymous with the pandemic, this Zoom call moves away from what we may have come to understand of this platform, and weaves together a mosaic of fictional and non-fictional elements with mild participant interaction and moments of quiet reflection.

While the call is propelled by the creators’ curiosities about birds and their subsequent excitement to share, at its heart is a series of audio interviews with A. Karuppuraja, a young man from Pothakudi village in Tamil Nadu, who found himself at the centre of a grassroots movement triggered by a mysterious bird.

We will be keeping our videos OFF the whole time so don’t worry about the hairstyle or the weird pajamas. See you there!

Duration: 75 minutes

Language: English and Tamil

For ages 12 years and above

Written and directed by Saudamini Kalra and Tushar Mathew

Graphic design by Sudharshan K

Sound design by Nikhil Nagaraj

Production Manager: Phalguni Vittal Rao

Translation: Samyuktha PC and Shuaibur Rahman

Karuppuraja's story: A Karuppuraja in conversation with Chanakya Vyas  

Publicity: Shubham Roy Choudhury

CAST

Dadi-Golunath story voiced by Yuki Ellias and Humhu

About Us

Indian Ensemble, a Bangalore based theatre group, was started in 2009 by Abhishek Majumdar and Sandeep Shikhar, who were co-artistic directors until 2018. The group has performed several shows to great acclaim in India and abroad, including Sandeep Shikhar’s Treadmill, Irawati Karnik’s Gasha and Abhishek Majumdar’s Kaumudi, Thook, Muktidham and Supernova. Apart from producing over a dozen plays in the last eleven years, Indian Ensemble also devotes a large part of its attention to the training and developing of new and young talents in the theatre through various residencies and training and internship programmes.

Chanakya Vyas, Shubham Roy Choudhury and Saudamini Kalra are the current Artistic Director, Executive Director and Associate Director respectively.

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