Director: Dhwani Vij

Derived from T.S Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’, this performance inquires into the disillusionment of a man with the times he is living in. Interplay of the human body is used to understand the poem’s protagonist and the structures surrounding him. Published in 1915, an interior monologue, the text is a modern literary classic. It digs into the crevices of a fragmented psyche, arising out of the angst of the ‘Modern man’. The performance attempts to capture the anguish of the speaker, his attempts to maintain sanity in a world he considers meaningless. At the same time, the need to understand and be understood by the world around him is the driving factor that controls and inspires our ‘hero’. The struggle of the speaker is essentially internal, the dialog is with the self; motivated by the mundane and repetitive reality of the external world. How can a performance achieve this internal tension and external stasis?