NIRAYUTHAPAANIGAL
(Tamil Play)
Production: Yaazh Theatre and Research Foundation
Playwright: Ariyanachi Ganesan
Direction: G. Gobi
About the Play
The characters in this play are people who have nothing. Like refugees driven from country to country, hunted down and cast out, they have been rendered silent. Not merely yesterday, but perhaps even a moment ago, everything they possessed may have been severed, seized, and thrown away…
Those who stripped them of everything, to the point of leaving nothing behind, have spread across the four directions of this world, proclaiming themselves saviours and crowning themselves with titles of redemption.
These unarmed people, meanwhile, have been pushed into perilous journeys, destined to be turned into obedient servants, errand-runners, and those who bear responsibility for crimes committed by others.
They keep travelling through capsizing boats, trains set ablaze, and borderlands where landmines have been buried.
In this lifeless expanse, the one who offers them a small glimmer of light, as they search for life with hope, is a musician called Nadukkootthan.
It was when Nadukkootthan stood among the great multitude of the unarmed—when he himself had lost everything—that he discovered the subtle art of holding on to love, transforming his own body into an instrument meant only for love.
In his state of being unarmed, he played his body again and again, until he became a great, genderless mother to all those on the journey.
Seeking the lap of this musical mother, the eternalists of the world begin arriving, making themselves unarmed.
As the number of the unarmed unexpectedly grows to a point where they begin to determine the fate of the world, the saviours start to lose their minds.
Finally, in order to preserve their dignity in the face of madness, all the kings and emperors who had come to save the world perform a ritual: they draw their swords and circumcise themselves.
At that moment, the world becomes a place belonging to everyone.
All languages disappear, and only the language of love, spreading its branches, carries the Earth.
The curtain closes.
Major Performances
1. Directed ‘NIRAYAUTHAPANIGAL’
(The Castrtes) Written by Ariyanaachi, 2 days
show at INDIANOSTRUM THEATRE, Pondicherry
2. Directed ‘NIRAYAUTHAPANIGAL’
(The Castrtes) Written by Ariyanaachi, at South
Indian Theatre Festival, Thanjavur. 2017
3. Directed ‘NIRAYAUTHAPANIGAL’
(The Castrtes) Written by Ariyanaachi, at Sangeet Natak AkademiTheatre Festival, Puducherry. 2017
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