Love and Marriage relooked at from a woman’ perspective (K)nots,
raises the question - can marriage be pro-woman? Is not this institution
not only male-biased but also actively supportive of an anti-woman
ethos? By retaining its male orientation, this institution seems to have
put itself on a self-destruct mode. And love? Our notions of love are
created out of cinema stereotypes. Are not all famous love sagas also
male narratives that venerate the man at the cost of the woman? And is
not love also a concept, conceived within our consumerist structures?
And if it is consumerist, does it not further commodify the woman?
Subjecting the most valorised emotion of love and the most cherished
institution of marriage to a feminist intervention the questions both
the validity and the viability of the two concepts. The play is not a
solution-provider. Rather it seeks solutions from all of us, who know
the male-orientation of our structures and turn our face away from them
or simply accept them as given co-ordinates that have to be accepted by
all. We have also participated in the UNIFEM campaign against
trafficking of women in South East Asia and done plays in colleges for
the UNIFEM and WSDC in Nov. – Dec. 2000. Work for Delhi’s environment
also continues, firecrackers apart, the group has done 100 shows in
schools, marketplaces, office complexes and parks against the use of
plastic polybags.
Direction: Sanjay Kumar
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