Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight written and directed by Mallika Prasad, Ram Ganesh Kamatham is a one hour English comedy play and highly recommended watch by us.

Venue: Jagriti Theatre, Ramagondanahalli, Varthur Road, Whitefield.
Date: Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June, 2013
Timings: Saturday 8pm, Sunday 3:00pm and 6:30pm
Tickets: Rs. 250
(discounts for senior citizens and students available)

Every time an email bounces you get a response from the Mailer Daemon. This is her story. Well actually, it`s about the mails she`s received about a kitty party that got out of hand. And text fragments from someone whose apartment walls are shrinking. And a set of lost messages from someone wandering in the mountains. Where does it all connect? Somewhere in the universe there is a place where all the lost words go, a place for the message in a bottle that just kept drifting…

Hidden in Plain Sight is a solo theatre performance that paints sharp portraits of four women set against the backdrop of the city. Featuring a powerhouse performance by Mallika Prasad and a freewheeling text by Ram Ganesh Kamatham, the performance blasts through a blistering array of material, from a cabaret number featuring an erstwhile diva, to the letters of a 17th century Zen monk, from the city as a mythic backdrop, to cyberspace as urban wasteland, from the truism that we live in a media saturated world, to the paradox of modern relationships in a hyper-connected world.

Hidden in Plain Sight first premiered in 2012 at the Going Public Theatre Festival at Goldsmiths University in London and at the Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Arts Research in Puducherry in 2013. It also played at the Jan 2013 editions of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala and the Windermere Theatre Festival, Bareilly. AEIF`s previous work includes Bust, Creeper and Dancing on Glass.

About the writer director 

Ram Ganesh Kamatham is a writer-­‐director who has created work for stage, film, radio, comics and video games. A graduate of SOAS, University of London, his plays entertain and challenge audiences, confronting them with the issues of our times – the continuing micro-politics of globalisation, the new power dynamics brought on by social media and a critical engagement with the politics of development. Several of his plays have been performed in Indian metros and internationally, including the Bharat Rang Mahotsav in New Delhi and the National Asian American Theater Festival in Los Angeles. In 2007 Ram Ganesh attended the Royal Court Theatre's International Residency for Emerging Playwrights. His play Ultimate Kurukshetra won the 2011 Sultan Padamsee Award for Playwriting. He is a compulsive traveller, beach bum and chocoholic...

About the actor-­director
Mallika Prasad is an actor-­director whose work spans teaching spoken English to children, training actors in
performance making, writing, directing and performing for stage, film, television and documentary films in English, Hindi and Kannada. A graduate from National School of Drama, Delhi and Goldsmiths College, University of London, she continues to study physical and vocal training processes, in search of theatrical vocabulary as much to create her own work, as to train other actors. As a performer and director she works with the idea of bringing the writer, director and actor together to generate material that reflects our time. Always ready to set off on a new adventure, she has trained in circus arts, mountaineering, rock climbing and has recently taken up walking on stilts. Hidden in Plain Sight, the most exciting adventure thus far, is her first solo performance.