CHENNAI: When we celebrate Independence Day each year, how many of us really feel the need to be united and take a look at various problems pertaining to the diverse population of the country? How different ideologies combine to fragment an individual into many pieces was the crux of the message that Soaked-Stretched-Submerged, a theatre group, attempted to convey. The cross-media choreo poem, a form of exploratory theatre, directed by Parnab Mukherjee, was staged at Alliance Francaise on I-Day, as part of the Prakriti Foundation’s annual fest, One Billion Eyes, 2011.The play opened with a poem depicting the violence in the north-eastern states. Authorities decide to replace a broken Gandhi statue with a golden one, but they find the corpse of a woman in the box where the new statue is supposed to be. From there, the play leads to an interpretation of the human mind with three different characters performing three different actions. You will realise that it is not three different people, but one, which is you. Each of the fragments represent the three facets of a human mind and how each will react differently, given a societal issue. Even if initially, all three characters seem detached from each other, they come together as the play goes on. The play will be staged at University of Madras on Wednesday at 1pm and at Stella Maris College on Thursday at 11am.
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