Gillo celebrates Rabindranath Tagore's Anniversary
with
SHE-HE-SHEY
(English-Hindi-Bengali)
A play for all above 12 years

Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's SHEY

1 hr 20 min

At PRITHVI THEATRE, Juhu, Mumbai 

May 7th at 8pm

Booking open at Prithvi Ph 26149546 (1pm to 9pm) 
Home delivery 39895050
Online booking www.bookmyshow.com

Original Bengali Text RABINDRANATH TAGORE
English Translation APARNA CHAUDHURI
Adaptation & Direction SHAILI SATHYU
Choreography HAMSA MOILY
Music ANAGH BANERJEE & MITHILA LAD
Production Design ABIR PATWARDHAN
Light Design SANANDA MUKHOPADHYAY

Synopsis
She-He-Shey is a stage adaptation of Tagore’s book ‘Shey’ (Se), a collection of stories of extraordinary adventures, created for his nine-year old granddaughter Nandini. To keep the tales spinning he employs ‘Shey’, a person constituted entirely of words and rather talented at concocting tales. This stage adaptation is a free flowing response to the stories in the book Shey, set in a collage along with poems and paintings by Tagore.
Originally commissioned by Happenings Kolkata for Rabindra Utsav 2013, this play has also been performed at Santiniketan and at Nandikar's National Theatre Festival.

Director’s note
When I decided upon ‘Shey’ as the text for this stage adaptation, I had no idea what I was getting into. The book is literally like a chakravyuh. How could someone write like this? We have been blown away by the sheer abandon with which Tagore has written this book. As he says ‘Let this story of ours be just any old how, without head or tail, rhyme or reason, sum or substance, just as we please.’ It is with that spirit that I have approached the staging and tried to be as free spirited as I could dare!
Each part of the book invites us to see echoes of our own lives and that is what we have tried to explore. The past two months have been a roller coaster ride to say the least. We have used a series of processes to create the play with the performers, sometimes intense and at times completely idiotic. Each time we felt lost, we went back to the book.
I have collaborated with Hamsa Moily (the choreographer) and that has set the tone for the visual idiom of the play. We have used a lot of movement in the story –telling, along with Tagore’s paintings as inspiration. It has been an attempt (maybe a very naive one) to make sense of the rhythms in Tagore’s writings, music and paintings. 
The process of creating this play has been a delightful journey of discovering Tagore and celebrating life!

Cast: VIGHNESH SINKAR, PRASAD DAGARE, HETAL VARIA, VINATI MAKIJANY, GHANSHYAM TIWARI, SAHIL GANGURDE, JIGNA KHAJURIA, AMIT BHARGAVA.

Graphic design ANAGH BANERJEE & DIPTO DE
Production management TANYA MAHAJAN
Lights operation SHAILI SATHYU
Production team MANOJ KARKI and JANIT TEMKAR
Images RAJ BACHAN