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Phanatasmagoria is a political play exploring how power, censorship and tradition can silence debate. Mehrosh, a celebrated student activist has been invited to an isolated house in the middle of a forest to take part in a debate with a powerful political adversary from the ruling party. It's a chance to make her voice heard.
About the author
Deepika Arwind is an international playwright and
theatre-maker originally from Bangalore whose work has
been presented across India, the USA and Europe. She has
won or been nominated for several awards, including the
Toto Award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative,
and The Hindu Playwright Award.
She was recently a playwright-in-residence at Jagriti,
part of The International Conference of Insecurity - a
collective of performers from eight countries based in
Zurich (2022), and playwright-in-residence for the Welt/
Buehne season at the Residenztheater in Munich.
She will be a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in
Stuttgart for most of 2023.
Summary
Set in an imaginary country in the near future where leopards prowl, "Phantasmagoria" pits the terror of speaking out, against the fear of staying quiet, in order to warn us of the very real dangers of populism, social media and the use of fear to control us.
