Ranga Shankara theatre in Bengaluru.
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Fourth Wall Theatre’s socio-political drama ‘Moogetu’ will premiere at Ranga Shankara on Thursday.
Written by multilingual writer Ravikiran Rajendran and helmed by director Sidhaartha Maadhyamika, it draws from real-life incidents of Dalit and Bahujan students like Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi who died due to suicide in elite educational institutions.
The Kannada play treats the caste question through two characters — a lecturer at odds with age-long institutionalised practices, and a student fighting for survival. It questions the historic injustice meted out to Dalit and Adivasi communities, disputes the narrative that caste conflicts are limited to rural places, and envisages an egalitarian society, says a press note.
Moogetu, January 16, 7:30 pm, at Ranga Shankara, JP Nagar.