Naatak, Rashomon (2018)

Title

Naatak, Rashomon (2018)

Description

Ranjita Chakravarty plays the psychic in Naatak’s 64th production reimagines Akutagawa’s “In a Grove” in a contemporary Mumbai setting, staged in Hinglish with English supertitles. A psychological “whodunit,” the play unfolds through layered testimonies of a single violent incident, each account reshaping truth through memory, ego, and perception. Incorporating stylized fight choreography, live music, and cinematic flashbacks inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s landmark Japanese film adaptation, the production probes the instability of narrative authority.

Date

2018

Producer

Naatak

Director

Savitha Samu

Playwright

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Production Location

Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto, California

Subject

Ranjita Chakravarty

Identifier

RC11