About The Event
When two greedy merchants from Rural Rajasthan discover their wives are pregnant, they promise their unborn children to each other in marriage. When both have girls, one of them lies and says he has had a boy. He raises his daughter like a son and gets her married to the other girl. What will happen on the wedding night? Based on a short story by Padmashri Vijaydan Detha, Dohri Zindagi is a tale of love, magic and redefining one's own destiny.
The play uses folklore, folk music, dance, vibrant costumes and hand painted piantings as a backdrop to transport you to Rajasthan, and then goes on to tell a story about queer love, fluidity, questioning gender norms and breaking the shackles of patrirachy.
This critically acclaimed and much loved play was awarded the Gender bender Grant in 2016 and has since performed at most prestigious theatre festivals across India including International Theatre Festival of Kerala, Rangashankara Theatre Festival, Centrestage Festival at the National Centre for Performing Arts, Prithvi Theatre and at the National School of Drama. It has been performed seventy five times so far.
