Performance: Ghola
Creator-in-the-Lead Anupam Kaushik Borah
Group Replica, Assam
Language Non-verbal
Duration 50 minutes

The Body: Body has stains. Blurred and opaque (Ghola). Half of the year. Half and a quarter of the year. Anticipation. Rumours. And terror. Body bears the mark.
Motion: Motion sans speed. Decelerated pace. Like that of the water level while decreasing. Of stained bodies. Of so called saviors.
Pictures: Pictures of vivid colours. Colours on moving pictures of the stained bodies. Speed. Like that of the water level while rising. Movement. Angles. Treatment. Dramebazies. Termed as news. Live from the death zone.
Songs: Hummable. Danceable. Partyable. Screamable. Sans meaning.
Big Dams: Electric. BPL house supply. Vote. Elections. Demonstrations. Lathi-charge. Tear gas. Anesthesia. Arrests. Earthquake. Bam!!!
Flood Relief Camps: Or concentration camps.
Time: Smothering.
We: We are disabled artists.

In this performance students have tried to perform Romeo-Juliet and make the audience look at it in a particular way. The security guard tries to maintain the institutional norms of viewing while constantly warding off intruding outsiders. The audience is lured to be a part of the performance in many different ways - as guests at a party, as voyeurs, as dispassionate observers called upon to judge the characters, as onlookers, avoiding involvement in violent confrontations - not allowing them to settle with one way of viewing or understanding. In the end, the security guard takes over, opening up the story into a narrative of his own migrant existence on the margins of urban life.