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Title
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Mahābhārata
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Description
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Presented at Flax Studios in Oakland from November 15 to December 8, 2019, this staging of Mahābhārata featured J. Jha as the Itahasavid, a solitary storyteller who guides audiences through the epic’s moral and familial conflicts. Written by Geetha Reddy, the production distilled the vast Sanskrit narrative into an intimate solo performance. Through physical transformation and vocal modulation, Jha embodied multiple figures across generations of war, kinship, and duty. Positioned within a contemporary Bay Area performance space, the work reframed the classical epic as a living, diasporic act of storytelling.
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Date
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2019
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Director
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Michael Socrates Moran
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Playwright
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Geetha Reddy
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Production Location
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Flax Studios, Oakland, California
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Subject
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Geetha Reddy
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Identifier
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GR7
Mahābhārata