The Blue Mug
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Atul Kumar’s The Blue Mug is a play about memories and what we make of them. The script describes memory as “our coherence, our reason, even our action…our fiction, our self, our very own personal narrative” and compels the audience to contemplate about memory as a collective tool. Each of the four actors struggles to construct a sense of their individual being on the basis of what they remember, juggling through the significant and insignificant moments that they salvage (or reclaim) from the abyss of forgetting. They struggle to separate the truth from the fiction of their past and present selves. The play is based on the book by well-known neurologist Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, which explores the case studies of patients who were apparently lost in the inevitable world of their own collective past.
The Blue Mug, 6 to 7 August, Rangsharda Auditorium, Bandra (W), Mumbai. For more information, visit www.ncpamumbai.com
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