Director Notes :
The Outcast is a very complex but not a bell made performing text. This is an Autobiography, so the text demands the different kind of Performance Treatment. Every text has own complex and they demand an objective performing language. The outcast basically dehumanizing impact of caste Oppression in Hindu society and the narrator is haunted by the question of his fractured identity. As I already mentioned it is not novel, story and even not a play. It is purely an autobiography. It open so many ways for our creativeness. It makes us realize the atrocious life of people living in re-motive areas of India The suffering of “sharan Kumar” writer of this autobiography is not only his suffering, it is meant to all millions of people who fight for their self-respect and dignity. Their live may have different references but the pain, agony and suffering remain the same. It is not only the question of the writer, it is the question of our ethics, society, religion, caste and more our values which is directly involve with our cruel system and they off course not expect anyone’s sympathy, even these questions create anger and our irritation for our system.
Cast and credits :
CAST
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Shilpa Bharti
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Anjali Sharma
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Sunil Bihari
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Vivek Kumar
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Abhishek Chauhan
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Ashutosh Kumar
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Ravi Kaushik
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Ranu Kumar
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Abhishek Anand
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Sameer Kumar
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Ravi Mahadevan
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Nandkishor Kumar “Nandu”
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Suraj Kumar
CREDIT :
Special thanks to MR PARVEZ AKHTAR for the costume. The same was designed in 2009 for Akkarmashi
Conceived & Structure Randhir Kumar
Sound- Bhupendra Kuamr
Sound Assistant- Gunjan Kumar
Precaution- Aditya Gunjan
Song Research and compose- Abhishek Chauhan
Song- Bal Gangadhar Baghi
Set Idea- Abhishek Chauhan and Divya Ratan
Set and Property Construction- Prabodh Vishwakarma
Poem- Dr. Wahru sounwaney
Research- Amitesh Kumar
Video operation and
Technical In charge- Rajeev Rai
Costume Making- Saheb Tailor
Steel Works- City Steel
Kamarbandh- Sudama Pandey
Printing- Lokvani Publication
Chorographer- Om Prakash
Production Assistant- Himanshu Singh
Autobiography- SHARANKUMAR LIMBALE
Director- RANDHIR KUMAR
Theatre Group
“RAAGA”
An association of art, education and social welfare
Reparatory Patna
About the RAAGA :
“RAAGA” a Group of Young Theatre Practitioners, Writers, Designer, Musicians and Visual & Fine Art Artist, was Formed in 2007. In the age of Multidisciplinary and Multicultural world “RAAGA” aim’s is to collaborate with young & enthusiastic artist of varied field, Kinds and nature to come together, So that the sonorous amalgam could happen resulting a fine tune art work and practices which is the need of our modern but disturb society. As a nation state, we are at the critical junction, where the opposite has become the common feature in walk of life. We are at the helm of political, social, religious, regional and ethnic contamination and contractions regularly into violence in various part of the country. We as a group, “RAAGA” are firm that only cultural interaction between all this fractions of the society can lead us to a harmonious society and nation state.
Facing various challenging of our time, our art practice should not be aloof of the difficulties of our time. Our art practice will try to intrigue, converse and communicate with the people in their language and so we will be using the popular forms of the country heavily. We hope that the young and energetic artist of the country with their own modernist approach will create a huge different in the contemporary art practice scenario with hug investment of people’s culture. The rest would be the history.
With More than TWO HUNDRES and FIFTY Performances of about TWELVE Plays to our Credits In Last EIGHT Years, The Group Has Organized Theatre Festivals In Patna and Started a Theatre Award in the memory of Shashi Bhushan (Theatre Artist From Patna) SHASHI BHUSHAN SMRITI NATYA SAMMAN.
RAAGA major productions are DAKGHAR, BABY, JAHAJIN, GODAN, KAHANIYA TAB AUR AB, MAHUA, PUTRID PROLOGUE AND NATMETHIA.
Name of the Group: “RAAGA” Patna
An association of art, education and social welfare, Reparatory Patna
Country of origin: India
Address: H.O A.K. Srivastava, Near Yashoda Apartment, B.S.E.B. Colony, Shastri Nagar, Patna- 800023(Bihar)
Name of the contact person: Randhir Kumar
Mobile Phone: +91 9431064204
Mail ID: raagatheatreproductions@gmail.com
Name of the Play/Solo performance: OUTCASTE (Group work)
Name of the Playwright: Autobiography of
SHARANKUMAR LIMBALE
Conceived & Structure: Randhir Kumar
Language of the Play: HINDI
Duration of the Play: 100M
Number of team members: 17Person
Male- 15
Female- 2
About the Director :
Randhir Kumar
Awarded the Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Puraskar of Sangeet Natak Akademi for 2013-14 for his notable talent as a Director Randhir Kumar is a Graduated from National School of Drama in 2008 with specialized in design & Theatre Technique. After graduated from NSD completed fellowship on performing spaces, conventional & non-conventional performing spaces of Patna (Bihar) for session 2008-2009 and junior fellowship for the session 2011-2013 which was awarded by Ministry Of Culture, govt. of India. Ever since then working regularly as a director and designer for amateur and professional theatre groups of India and doing freelancing in theatre. Visited RADA (UK) for Technical training under students exchange programme between NSD, New Delhi and RADA (UK). Participated in prestigious gats festival china in 2009 and 2011s, as a production designer, attended Ibsen festival, Dhaka and attended performing art festival Pakistan. Founder and artistic director of “raaga” reparatory Patna. Randhir major Theatre is Baby, Dakghar, Navana, Voice of life, Jahajin, Putrid Prologue, Natmethia, Mahuaa, Kahaniya Tab aur ab etc
About the Play :
The Outcast is an autobiography of SHARANKUMAR LIMBALE. The Text Deals with the Anguish and irreverence of the cultural ferment that opened up the Marathi literature to Dalit writings. As a first-person account of the struggle against poverty, deprivation, Discrimination and violence, The Outcaste captures the dehumanizing impact of caste Oppression in Hindu society. In tracing the author's gradual awakening to selfhood and Maturity, the play provides an inside view of life in a “Mahar village”. Moving bleak, its Narrative punctured by bitter wit, this is a revelatory Novel for people who are not on the Uncomfortable periphery of social and economic life In India. The narrator is haunted by the question of his fractured identity, “Am I an upper caste or an untouchable?” A Reflection of the darker side of India, this novel is a bitter Critique of the lack of Compassion that the lower castes have endured for centuries. A true milestone that publicized the Dalit cause, the Marathi original went through four editions. An Acknowledged masterpiece in the Mahar dialect, The Outcaste asserts the Dalit inner quest for identity using original language, idiom, metaphor and imagery.
OUTCASTE
About Writer
SHARANKUMAR LIMBALE
What is it like to grow up as an impoverished outcaste in modern India? Perhaps the best way to find out is through the words and emotions of those who have lived through the experience and who have the education and talent to write so expressively about it. One obvious source is Sharakumar Limbale's recent autobiography, The Outcaste Akkarmashi. Limbale is a well-known Dalit activist writer, editor, and critic who has worked successfully with several literary genres and is the author of some 24 books and who serve as the Regional Director of the Yashwantrao Chavan Mararashtra Open University, Nasik in India
National School of Drama (NSD) Repertory Group, Patna presentations on Invitation from Asom Natya Sanmilan