About The Event
Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu,
in collaboration with Lasaki Media Works, a content agency and production house based in Mumbai, presents
A Woman Or Not To Be
at Ram Ganesh Gadkari Rangayatan, Thane
Celebrating 45 years of Adishakti
Reuniting after the successful staging of 'Bhoomi' in Thane in 2022, Adishakti and Lasaki Media Works collaborate once again to bring this production to the stage.
Hamlet:
Are you reducing the entire human experience to a series of predictable responses? What about the sheer, genderless, magnificent, illogical, glorious absurdity of it all? The baffling enigma of existence itself!
If Hamlet were female, would the ghost still be believed?
What happens to revenge when the one who desires it is a woman?
Is madness a diagnosis—or a convenient way to silence dissent?
Can power exist without bloodshed, swords, or spectacle?
In this contemporary adaptation by Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research, Hamlet is a woman navigating grief, suspicion, rage, and resistance in a world that refuses to take her seriously. Haunted by her mother’s ghost and dismissed by doctors, spies, and institutions, she stages art, battles science, and manufactures spectacle in a desperate search for truth. But when the king does not flinch, Hamlet is forced to confront a brutal reality—one that compels her to rethink revenge and redefine it for herself.
Hamlet
My “to be, or not to be” is still a work in progress.
