In C SHARP C BLUNT, director Sophia Stepf from Berlin and singer actor MD Pallavi from Bangalore, invited co-conspirators to create a piece of interrogation into what it means to be a professional woman in the entertainment industry today.



In her first ever solo performance, MD Pallavi takes us through this funny, sarcastic and political rendition of the latest App in the market. Come and exclusively meet the creators of the App - the body, the voice and the programmer. Bring your Smartphones, leave them on and use the App.

C SHARP C BLUNT is based on the concept of the loop. An electronic musician is live on stage; he creates and layers loops from live sound. The loop in its nature reflects the training of the singer through endless repetition, but also the process of cultural and social programming. This cultural programming also defines the specific way, girls and women are supposed to behave.

The play looks at traditional gender roles as engrained by culture and the classical performance training versus the woman as the globalised consumer living in a new market that caters to her wants and needs. A look at the performer as a site of battle between purity and consumption, between servitude and ego, between being-looked-at-ness and self determination.

Catch a glimpse of the play with the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/68747007

Date: August 20, 2013
Time: 7 pm
Venue: NCPA Experimental
Language: English
Duration: 1 Hour approx; No Interval

Supported by the Goethe-Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Credits:
Performer: MD Pallavi
Director: Sophia Stepf
Text collaborators: Swar Thounaojam, Irawati Karnik
Assistant Director: Rituparna Bhattacharya
Live Sound: Nikhil Nagaraj
Light Design: Mohamed Mustafa A
Production Management: Shilpa Somashekar and Veena Appiah
Photography and Design: Shamik Sen Gupta

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