Sankar Venkateswaran
India / Sri Lanka | Theatre
My Name Is Tamizh
The latest work by Indian director Sankar Venkateswaran is celebrating its premiere at the Theaterfestival. It sees performers engage in a seemingly open exchange while navigating the complex terrain of the memories and eyewitness accounts of Tamil people from Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. They are centred around the burning of the Jaffna Public Library in 1981, which marked the start of a civil war. In an intensely playful manner, the performance attempts to expose the nexus between language, power and terror.
Team & Credits
Performance text collaboratively created by Nicholas Kirutharshan, Kavita Srinivasan, Sankar Venkateswaran and Leow Puay TinDirection: Sankar Venkateswaran
Performers: Nicholas Kirutharshan, Kavita Srinivasan, Sankar Venkateswaran
Text curation: Leow Puay Tin
Scenography: Jean-Guy Lecat
Production: Satoko Tsurudome
Co-produced by Theaterfestival Basel and SPIELART Theaterfestival
Supported by Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore
Driver, Setter: Raman Khalaf
Translation: Cornelia Enger (into German)
Photo: Katharina Seibt
