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‘HAMLET IN FARIDABAD
“Hamlet in Faridabad” lived remarkably up to the bold entitlement, which Saumyabratta created. Almost pendulum like in the enactment of its narrative … the outcome had the sense of a very theatrical one-act play, as Saumya would toggle between multiple identities. The performance had a taped vocal narrative running interspersed with blank spaces so one ID would do acts connected to the “voice over” silently and suddenly would jump into the other ID which had a more ranting quality to the Performative delivery, carrying over elements of the previous ID …in a very literal manner…. so often the elements of ID1 would act in a delayed fashion with newer elements superimposed over the previous ones. Both IDs had their locational sets as well with the ID2 placing itself on a rail track while the ID1 was more of a labour home accessory.